Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:37:25 -0200 From: Rainer Alves <rainer.alves@gmail.com> To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-BETA5 random freeze with rtc Message-ID: <43814F05.2010402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051121014504.GA1236@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <20051121014504.GA1236@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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Thomas Quinot wrote: >On a new Dell Precision 380 box running 6.05-BETA5, I've seen random >freezes (apparently not related to specific activities running on the >machine, which has web and mail servers and also runs an X server) a few >days apart. > >On the last two instances, the last message recorded in the logs was the >same: > >Nov 21 02:11:22 melamine kernel: rtc: 1000 > kern.hz: Timing will be inaccurate, please increase hz. > >and this messages does not occur at any other time, so I suspect it's >related to the freezes I saw. I might have been running mplayer shortly >before the freeze. Could this be related to PR 71536? (i.e. could the >rtc bug cause a freeze, and not only an annoying console message?) > >Thomas. > > I've had the same problem with mplayer+RTC on (5|6).x, the solution was to rebuild the kernel with "options HZ=1160", as well as rebuild the emulators/rtc port after each and every kernel update (reloading rtc.ko before launching mplayer). Messages regarding "inaccurate timing" and weird system freezes disappeared ever since. 7-current doesn't seem to be affected by any of those. -- Rainer Alves BrasilTelecom
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