[CentOS] kernel: Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts

Thu Jun 1 06:58:42 UTC 2006
Daniel de Kok <danieldk at pobox.com>

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 20:27 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> should I insert noapic at grub.conf? What will I loose if i do noapic?

You could try to use a different timer source first. There was an
excellent post about this a while ago (esp. check the "If you are not
running VMWare" part):

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-February/060651.html

It boils down to using another clock with "clock=<clockname>", usually
"pmtmr" and "pit" are good candidates.

-- Daniel