On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 19:05 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
...just wondering what that msg means...was hitting really regular then stopped...like it was hitting /var/log/messages bout every 3 secs
Bit of googling turned up a statement from the AMD kids that says the following We've started seeing this internally in AMD QA. The bit that the processor uses to indicate that it is in the process of changing frequencies (aka the pending change bit) is not clearing. The powernow-k8 driver cannot change frequencies until the previous change has completed.
Because this is happening on the hardware side, my best guess is that the problem is not software related. We've reported the problem to the AMD hardware debug team and they're investigating. I'll put out a patch when we have a solution.
-Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.
The other information I've seen says that it's likely related to processor speed stepping and not recovering properly etc.
-- Jim Perrin
ummmm ok....I will keep monitoring this system...I just swapped out processors today...the powernow-k8 msg was doing it but then...the system is running fine...seems like it anyway...I did not mean that the whole sys "stopped" just that the powernow msgs stopped.
right now...I just wanna see it run 2-3 or so days w/out goin nuts like the other proc did that I just replaced lol
thx
jr