Re: System time warping around real time problem - please help

[Fionn Behrens <fionn@unix-ag.org>]

On Die, 2003-03-25 at 23:14, george anzinger wrote:
> Fionn Behrens wrote:

> > Summary:
> >        - No apparent hardware issue.
> >        - System runs stable as long as you dont for (;;) gettimeofday();
> >        - notsc being evaluated. I will get back to you later.
> >          Does not resolve the odd test software crash, though.

> This all sounds very much like the TSCs are drifting WRT each other. 
> Is it possible that you have some power management code (or hardware) 
> that is slowing one cpu and not the other?

Well, I still don't really know what TSCs actually are (or what TSC
stands for).

The only suspect in that case would be the amd76x_pm.o kernel module
which I am admittedly using. It saves about 90Watts of power when the
machine is idle...

I'll check what happens when the system boots without amd76x_pm.
Will report back tomorrow.

Thanks to all for keeping the suggestions going!

Regards,
	F. Behrens