Florian Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > first of all, sorry for the long headline. > second: > Every time, i try to do the following: > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature > the whole system looks up for a short period of time (something about > 0.5s). realy everything, video and audio encoding, mouse and keyboard > input, firefox playing a flash animation, ... > I am also getting the following: > Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. > > maybe these two things are belonging to each other. > > I am using a 2.6.12-rc3-mm1 kernel on a amd64 with a nvidia nforce4 > mainboard.
It might help if you were to generate a kernel profile: readprofile -r for i in $(seq 10) do cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature done readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/