From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
Cc: erik@debill.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel losing time
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:30:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020826093050.A2524@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208251601060.3234-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>; from thunder@lightweight.ods.org on Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:02:07PM -0600
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:02:07PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 erik@debill.org wrote:
> > Would this explain my computer losing 2-3 minutes of time while
> > ripping a cd? Normally it's dead on (w/ ntpd running to guarantee
> > that) but while ripping or burning it loses so badly ntpd can't keep
> > up.
>
> We call it 'heavy interrupt load'. The more errors can happen, the more
> errors do happen. (And by the way, I've already seen VIA chipsets jump off
> by hours.)
It's always the same amount - about four hours - there is an underflow to
negative values with unsigned ints.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-26 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-25 10:55 kernel losing time Volker Kuhlmann
2002-08-25 11:01 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-25 11:47 ` Volker Kuhlmann
2002-08-25 21:55 ` erik
2002-08-25 22:02 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-26 7:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-08-26 0:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-26 1:13 ` Volker Kuhlmann
2002-08-26 10:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-26 10:27 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-08-28 1:32 ` Volker Kuhlmann
2002-08-28 16:24 ` george anzinger
2002-08-26 3:05 ` erik
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