Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:
>> But it crashes with hpet and jiffies?
> Yes.

  Blech.  What kind of physical machines are these?

>> Was it a crash or a hang?
> What's your definition of either ?
> The terminal window is unresponsive, the console is un-responsive
> (magic-sysReq does nothing), and one needs to power-cycle.
> You can call that a crash or hang.  Maybe it's more of a hang...
> Regardless, my system is dead and I can't get at my data....

  With a hang, the kernel may actually be doing something, and may
eventually 'unhang'.  Why, I have no idea, but I suspect the clock
watchdog may do something to fix it.  In those cases, the system
eventually recovers, and you can now see dmesg logs that may say what
happened.

  Do you have the hangcheck-timer module running?

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-- Thomas