System receives error "Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interrupts" in messages
Issue
- Time source unstable.
- The following errors are found in /var/log/messages:
Mar 3 12:05:24 hostname kernel: warning: many lost ticks.
Mar 3 12:05:24 hostname kernel: Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
Mar 3 12:05:24 hostname kernel: rip __do_softirq+0x4d/0xd0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
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