On Nov 19, 2011, at 22:22 , Yi Ding wrote:
> I do have a i7-920 (Nehalem) processor in my machine, but I haven't
> seen the tsc unstable issue.
That shows up much less frequently than than the hangs. Trying the workaround
is probably a good idea in your case, and extremely unlikely to break anything
or make things worse. intel_idle.max_cstate=1 works fine for us, at the cost
of some waste of electrical power. If this helps in your case, please consider
adding data to the BZ.
Cheers,
Stephan
>
> Thanks,
> Yi
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Stephan Wiesand
> <stephan.wies...@desy.de> wrote:
>> On Nov 18, 2011, at 18:44 , Fabrizio Giordano wrote:
>>
>>> I get the same behaviour on my Scientific Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.6.32): my
>>> console becomes terribly slow for about 5 minutes. This is what I read when
>>> I call 'dmesg':
>>>
>>> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 299996380341 ns)
>>> Switching to clocksource hpet
>>
>> It's not the first time while following this thread that I wonder whether
>> this is yet another manifestation of the "Nehalem deep C states" problem.
>> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710265
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stephan
>>
>>>
>>> That delta is suspiciously 5 minute long...
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
>>> [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of
>>> Turtaut Geoffroy
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:40 PM
>>> To: Gianluca Varenni; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>>> Subject: RE: console slowness in sl6.1
>>>
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>> De : Gianluca Varenni [mailto:gianluca.vare...@riverbed.com]
>>> Envoyé : vendredi 18 novembre 2011 08:38 À : Turtaut Geoffroy;
>>> SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>>> Objet : RE: console slowness in sl6.1
>>>
>>> Does it happen if you run in purely text mode too (runlevel 3)? I've
>>> noticed something similar (several seconds), but totally sporadically. Not
>>> much runs on my machine, pretty much the a bare minimal text installation.
>>>
>>> GV
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Turtaut Geoffroy [mailto:geoffroy.turt...@dassault-aviation.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:35 PM
>>> To: Gianluca Varenni; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>>> Subject: RE: console slowness in sl6.1
>>>
>>> When we hit a key, it takes 1 or 2 seconds (or more).
>>> Applications are slow, Ctrl+Alt+F2 can take 30 seconds, ps -ef 10 seconds,
>>> df, ...
>>>
>>> The problems appears at random intervals, for 5 minutes.
>>>
>>> Just before and just after, no problem
>>>
>>> The problem appears on :
>>> Standalone system (no name services, dns, ldap, no network, ..) Network
>>> workstation (dns, ldap, ...)
>>>
>>> Geoffroy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>> De : Gianluca Varenni [mailto:gianluca.vare...@riverbed.com]
>>> Envoyé : vendredi 18 novembre 2011 08:26 À : Turtaut Geoffroy;
>>> SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>>> Objet : RE: console slowness in sl6.1
>>>
>>> What happens when it's extremely slow? Like you hit a key and it's not
>>> echoed on the screen for a long time (seconds)?
>>>
>>> Have a nice day
>>> GV
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
>>> [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of
>>> Turtaut Geoffroy
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:18 PM
>>> To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
>>> Subject: Re: console slowness in sl6.1
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have the same issue since we use RHEL 6.X/SL 6.X
>>>
>>> Topic : HP Z400 system very slow at ramdom times for 5 minutes (october
>>> 2011)
>>>
>>> We use HP workstations (XW4600, Z200, Z400, ...), VM, DELL laptops and the
>>> problem is only present on Z400 (xeon) et an HP pavilion (corei7).
>>>
>>> The problem is not present if we use 2.6.32 kernel from kernel.org.
>>>
>>> We have a case on RHN ...
>>>
>>> Last RH comment was :
>>> We have analysed the results and see that there is nothing waiting on I/O
>>> but there is a high CPU usage and large run queue.
>>>
>>> Geoffroy Turtaut
>>
>> --
>> Stephan Wiesand
>> DESY -DV-
>> Platanenenallee 6
>> 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
>>
--
Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany
