On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:36 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Erick Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I'm running an Athlon64 X2 4400+ (a dual core model) with an > > nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra on a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard and > > getting nasty messages like these in my dmesg: > > > > warning: many lost ticks. > > Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts > > rip default_idle+0x20/0x30 > > It's most likely bad SMM code in the BIOS that blocks the CPU too long > and is triggered in idle. You can verify that by using idle=poll > (not recommended for production, just for testing) and see if it goes away. >
WTF, since when do *desktops* use SMM? Are you telling me that we have to worry about these stupid ACPI/SMM hardware bugs on the desktop too? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
