From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264264AbTLYCdM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:33:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264265AbTLYCdM (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:33:12 -0500 Received: from mail.designassembly.de ([217.115.138.177]:20678 "EHLO mail.designassembly.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264264AbTLYCdL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:33:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEA4C65.2090903@designassembly.de> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:33:09 +0100 From: Michael Heyse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Giacomo Di Ciocco , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" References: <3FE9DFA2.5070203@nectarine.info> <20031224185248.GG27687@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20031224185248.GG27687@holomorphy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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