From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 04:38:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9108E16A41F; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:38:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer.alves@gmail.com) Received: from valimar.ibest.com.br (mx11.ibest.com.br [200.181.68.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2799943D45; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:38:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer.alves@gmail.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (centaurus.ibest.com.br [200.181.68.107]) by valimar.ibest.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id C956617BFEC; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:37:54 -0200 (BRDT) Message-ID: <43814F05.2010402@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:37:25 -0200 From: Rainer Alves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Quinot , current@freebsd.org References: <20051121014504.GA1236@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20051121014504.GA1236@melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-iBEST-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-From: rainer.alves@gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: 6.0-BETA5 random freeze with rtc X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:38:01 -0000 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