-----Original Message----- From: Aenoch Lynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16. oktober 2007 06:30 To: Daniel Akulenok; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RTC problems in Debian on PowerEdge 1950
I've had to do this on lots of my dell servers: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/12/msg00378.html On 10/15/2007 07:48 AM Daniel Akulenok wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm trying to get a vmware server up and running in a Debian 4.0 on a > Dell PowerEdge 1950 rack server, but I have some problems with RTC. > > Symptoms: > - When running "hwclock", Debian says "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for > clock tick timed out". > - When starting a guest host on vmware-server in Debian, I get about > 3500/sec log messages about "rtc: lost some interrupts at 2048Hz". Some > times it changes to 1024 or 4096. > > Attempted solutions: > - Changed HWCLOCKPARS in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to "--directisa", didn't > solve. > - Rebuilt kernel with Hz set to 100 and 1000, both didn't solve. > - Tried the 2.6.23 kernel, didn't solve. > > One solution that I've found on google is to just switch to Ubuntu > Server, but I don't want to do that, as Debian is the required spec for > our vmware servers here. > > Please help, I'm desperate! > > PS. Please CC all mails to me, as I'm not a member of the list. > > Kind regards, > Dak. > > Hi Aenoch, Do you know if this will also fix the errors that vmware spits out? Kind regards, Dak.
