Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:26:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:26:59 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:22463 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:26:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:30:50 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Thunder from the hill Cc: erik@debill.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel losing time Message-ID: <20020826093050.A2524@ucw.cz> References: <20020825215515.GA2965@debill.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from thunder@lightweight.ods.org on Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:02:07PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 24 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/