You may try to add "clocksource=tsc" to the kernel boot paramters.
Together with ntpd this workaround worked well for me.
Rgds,
Michael Fung
On 2010-08-27 12:15 AM, Robert wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your input. We too have seen some strange issues in the past
where boxes become unresponsive all of a sudden, there do seem to be
quite a few issues.
I always seem to feel like I’m trying to hack together patches for very
simple things which should just work.
I know a few people do have working solution for the clock issues,
here’s hoping one of them can offer some advice.
Thanks,
Robert
On 26/08/2010 17:06, "Michael Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote:
2010/8/26 Robert <[email protected]>:
> Hello Guys,
Hi Robert,
> I cannot use the ‘nomfgpt’ work around as we rely on the watchdog
and doing
> so breaks it.
We found that sometimes the boards lock up and do not recover even
with the watchdog. The problem seems to be that the software watchdog
is not activated until the kernel loads the module and runs the
service. If the CPU locks up during POST or early boot the box remains
US. We are looking at solutions based on a hardware watchdog instead
now.
> I have installed adjtimex and ntp:
>
> apt-get install adjtimex
> apt-get install ntp
>
> Which I thought may solve the issue as some others have suggested
but even
> with this the clock still drifts wildly, and after just a couple
of hours
> the clock is already several minutes out of sync.
Thats the same behaviour I have found. For some unexplained reason, I
found that older voyage linux (0.5) work much better but 0.6 and on do
not. We are currently using an old image for this reason.
> Can anyone offer any other advice? I could always schedule a cron
task to
> correct the clock but that seems so hacky.
The hardware is hacky too so this is probably the best workaround. The
clock quality on the Alixes seems to be very poor.
Michael
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