dmesg: Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed

[Dan Hensley]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:28 +0200, Tero Hiekkalinna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FC4 on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4800+ (ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM 
> S939 NFORCE4, Kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp) and I have this on systems logs:

Nice system.

> 
> ---clip---
> 
> Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
> warning: many lost ticks.
> Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
> rip acpi_processor_idle+0x12f/0x37f
> 
> ---clip---
> 
> What does that mean and should I be worried about it?

Welcome to the club.  This is a relatively popular subject.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223

Updating to kernel 2.6.14-1633 fixed it for me.  Others weren't so
fortunate.


Dan





> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best,
> Tero
>