On Mar 30, 2005 1:18 PM, James Wilkinson <james(a)westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Alex Greg wrote:
> When I run ifconfig or restart the networking on a couple of our
> machines, I sometimes get this error:
>
> warning: many lost ticks.
> Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
<snip>
> The machines are IBM x346 dual EM64T's with two Broadcom network ports
> on board and two Broadcom network cards - these are configured as two
> bonded pairs. They're running Fedora Core 3 x86_64.
>
> What do these errors mean, and are they likely to cause a serious
> problem? Everything seems OK so far (I've pulled 20GB of data the
> network already, no issues).
Kernel-level problem. Do you have any kernel modules loaded that didn't
come from Fedora? If not (and you're up to date), you should bugzilla
it.
Hi James,
Thanks for the response. I've up2date'd the system and it seems OK now.
Regards,
-- Alex