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From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lost Ticks
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:02:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050920070214.GA4208@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432E3D4C.4070508@perkel.com>

On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:23:40PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Got a dual core Athlon 64 X2 on an Asus board using NVidia chipset and 
> getting lost ticks. The software clock of course is totally messed up. 
> I've scanned google for a solution and see others complaining about bad 
> code in the SMM BIOS. I have the latest bios and whatever they need to 
> fix - isn't.
> 
> So - what do I do to make it work?

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105

On the kernel command-line:

x86_64:	try "notsc"
i386:	try "clock=pit"

"nosmp" works but isn't fun.

-- 
Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19  4:23 Lost Ticks Marc Perkel
2005-09-20  7:02 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2005-09-20 18:06   ` Scott Lampert
2005-09-20 18:24     ` Marc Perkel
2005-09-20 18:39       ` Scott Lampert

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