Re: AMD64: timer is running twice as fast as it should (again??)

[Mark Nipper <nipsy@bitgnome.net>]

On 20 Dec 2004, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> with 2.6 kernels, the timer on AMD64 runs exactly twice as fast as
> expected. E.g. 'sleep 10' returns after 5 seconds external time.
> 
> This behavior was seen with Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and
> 2.6.10-rc3-bk13 (both x86_64 mode).
> 
> System information can be found at
>                 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/hw/amd64

	Seem like something specific to Fedora or the bk branch
then because I'm running 2.6.10-rc3 under x86_64 and it sleeps as
long as it should.

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