Re: High irq load (Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-17 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:25:12PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > > > No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >= > > > 10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192

Re: High irq load (Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-14 Thread Peter Osterlund
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >= > > 10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192 Hz, not sure. > > Can you post the triple-fault message? It really shouldn't

High irq load (Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >= > 10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192 Hz, not sure. Can you post the triple-fault message? It really shouldn't triple-fault, although it _will_ obviously spend all