Comment 279 for bug 355155

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Prashant Vaibhav (mercurysquad) wrote : Re: Clocksource tsc unstable leads to lockups in Ubuntu Jaunty

Would anyone of you happen to know how to restrict the lowest C-state of the processor? I ran into a similar problem on freebsd, where the lapic loses ticks on c-states lower than C1, causing temporary or permanent hard-freezes. Setting the lowest c-state to C1 fixed the problem. Under freebsd you set a sysctl (hw.acpi.cpi.cx_lowest=C1).

I'm not sure how this is done on Linux, but if someone does, please try to set the lowest C-state to C1 and see if that helps.