[Bug 8286] "losing ticks" message/error under moderate load

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------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-10-18 22:50 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Can you please re-open this issue?
> 
> I got the same problem. Also the clock seems to be off by a few minutes per
> hour. Problem was worse (more time offset, timing related keyboard issues too)
> with "nv" driver (open source) for X11, went better with "nvidia" driver (closed
> source). Error message from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct 17 19:24:39 tanja kernel: [ 1392.338993] warning: many lost ticks.
> Oct 17 19:24:39 tanja kernel: [ 1392.338994] Your time source seems to be
> instable or some driver is hogging interupts
> Oct 17 19:24:39 tanja kernel: [ 1392.339011] rip acpi_processor_idle+0x12e/0x380
> [processor]
> 

Because the original report was incomplete, and your messages don't match, it's
possible that this is a different bug.  Please file a separate report instead.

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