There is an other problem with RTC driver:
On our alphaserver 2100 the kernel simple freezes at boot without the patch
(I think it is the same that Chris wrote)
Cly
Chris Lumens
<chris@slackware.com> To: "Arnaud S . Launay" <asl@launay.org>
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2000.09.28 19:19
Please respond to Chris Lumens
> Le Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:21:10PM -0700, Chris Lumens a écrit:
> > In other news, I'll be talking to the procps maintainer later about why
> > the SMP part of the latest top doesn't work. Anyone worked with
> > procps-2.0.7 on their Alphas?
>
> If it's the same thing than under Intel, there's a problem with
> locale that breaks top. I'll send you the patch in private, if
> you want it.
Well, I did some searching and figured it out. Turns out that there's
a problem with the RTC driver that screws up the reporting to /proc/stat,
which meant that top was getting bad information.
Disabling the RTC driver fixes the problem. I hear that there's
a patch floating around to fix this. Maybe it'll be in the next kernel.
--
Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
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-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"
\n";
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