From: Michael Heyse <m.heyse@designassembly.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Giacomo Di Ciocco <admin@nectarine.info>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!"
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:33:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FEA4C65.2090903@designassembly.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031224185248.GG27687@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> This is not particularly harmful. It just means the kernel has detected
> some variation in the processor's clock speed and is using a time source
> that doesn't change speed along with the processor's clock speed.
I had the same problem with an AMD K6-2 on VIA Aladdin V chipset, and it
WAS harmful, time source not sane at all, because the clock went at
about half speed.
What worked for me: using Andrew Morton's kernel, it includes a
via-tsc-fix.patch, now everything's all right.
Greetings,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-25 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-24 18:49 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-24 18:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-25 2:33 ` Michael Heyse [this message]
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2003-12-24 19:12 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks" Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-25 3:05 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" Albert Cahalan
2003-12-25 16:02 ` Giacomo Di Ciocco
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2003-12-25 18:14 ` Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-25 18:05 ` Albert Cahalan
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