Comment 41 for bug 535572

Hi Charlie,

your hardware setup seems to differ a lot from mine. I presume the problem I reported here deals with some AMD-related things (CPU or some never Hardware on the board where support was incomplete in kernel 2.6.32).

I currently use 2.6.35-rc3 and since 2.6.34 I didn't experience any freezes again.

However, to verify that you have the same problem as I did please put the following into a script and run it in a terminal (let it run until you experience the freeze again and upload the produced log here):

#!/bin/sh

logfile="ticks-`date +'%F-%H-%M-%S'`.log"

time=0

while [ 0 ]; do
 oldtime=$time
 time=`date +'%s.%N'`
 sec=`echo "$time" | sed -e 's/^\([0-9]\+\)\..*$/\1/g'`
 ms=`echo "$time" | sed -e 's/^.*\.\([0-9]\{3\}\).*$/\1/g'`
 pretty="`date --date "1970-01-01 $sec sec" +'%F %T'`.$ms"
 echo "($time - $oldtime - 1) * 1000" | bc -l | xargs printf "[$pretty] missed %1.0f ms\n" | tee -a $logfile
 sleep 1
done