Bug#638555: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: CPU time overflows for long-running processes.

2011-08-22 Thread James Tappin
On Saturday 20 August 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This wouldn't entirely surprise me on a 32-bit kernel with 1000 Hz > timer, but we don't build any kernel packages with that configuration. > > Which kernel did you actually find this on? 32 s >> uname -a Linux solstice2 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue

Bug#638555: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: CPU time overflows for long-running processes.

2011-08-19 Thread James Tappin (AFRL SMEI Scientist)
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35 Severity: normal When a process exceeds 2^31-1 (probably) milliseconds of CPU, the CPU time counter becomes corrupt. I have noted the following effects: 1) The process disappears altogether from top (although the overall usage stats show it to be running)

Bug#298075: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: Video to external monitor/projector is corrupted

2005-03-04 Thread James Tappin
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc Version: 2.6.8-9 Severity: normal Tags: patch On an iBook G3, the output to an external VGA monitor has high spatial frequency waves drifting across it. The patch accompanying this report is Owen Stampflee's 2.4 patch ported to 2.6 and fixes the problem. It prob