On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:23:28 +0300 (EEST)
"Ilpo Järvinen" [off-list ref] wrote:

There were some other timer related complications in 2.6.25 but it's so 
long time ago that I hardly remember anything about those anymore (and 
I'm not an expert on those things anyway). And it's still very open issue 
how that would cause the problem you're seeing.

	I opened a bug report to timer developers...
let's see if they can help:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11588

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