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I have available "ondemand, userspace, performance"
We are using the default right now which is "ondemand"
Steve Timm
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:45 AM
To: scientific-linux-users
Subject: Re: "Time went backwards" issues in SL5.9 kernel-xen and AMD
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Steven Timm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Since upgrading to the 2.6.18-348.1.1 kernel I am seeing continuous
> kernel exceptions of this form
>
> 2013-04-03T04:02:13-05:00 [log in to unmask] kernel: Warning
> Timer
> ISR/1: T
> ime went backwards: delta=-500760595 delta_cpu=67239405
> shadow=1879913420310320
> off=249335587 processed=1879914170340430
> cpu_processed=1879913602340430
> 2013-04-03T04:02:13-05:00 [log in to unmask] kernel: 0:
> 1879914170340430
> 2013-04-03T04:02:13-05:00 [log in to unmask] kernel: 1:
> 1879913602340430
>
>
> The system still is operational but the continuous error messages make
> it difficult to diagnose any other problems that may be happening.
>
> This hardware dual AMD Opteron 6134, has been running SL5 with Xen
> kernel ever since we bought it a year and a half ago and this is the
> first time we have seen this error message. the error message happens
> both in Xen Dom0 and Xen DomU's. We have three such identical
> machines and they all have the error.
> Our Intel-based hardware is not affected at all.
>
> Googling shows that there have been error messages of this sort that
> come and go ever since the Xen kernel was able to run on
> AMD64 hardware, and even a bugzilla against the upstream 5.6, but as
> yet no fix available. Is anyone else seeing this error in the current
> kernels?
>
> Steve Timm
What options are available for CPU frequency governor on your system?
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
and which one are you using? Look in /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed .
Akemi
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