topic Re: kernel: i8253 count too high in Operating System - Linux

kernel: i8253 count too high

Aditya Apparao — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:19:35 GMT

I am getting the following message many times in /var/log/messages
Jul 13 14:13:27 localhost kernel: i8253 count too high! resetting..
Jul 13 14:13:28 localhost last message repeated 35 times
Hardware=bl20p
OS=Redhat 2.4.21-15.ELsmp

Re: kernel: i8253 count too high

Mark Grant — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:48:06 GMT

This has been a kernel issue.

Have a look here

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97000

Re: kernel: i8253 count too high

Jerome Henry — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:15:00 GMT

Two solutions if this message really bothers you :
- Update to kernel 2.4.22, which seems to integrate the patch
- Applyt the patch to your kernel. Explanations on this message reason and patch here :
http://lwn.net/Articles/14536/

Hope it helps

Jerome Henry