From: Giacomo Di Ciocco <admin@nectarine.info>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!"
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:02:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FEB0A15.4000708@nectarine.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1072321519.1742.328.camel@cube>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I sure wouldn't bet on that. More likely, he's simply
> losing ticks. He has a Duron processor, which is
> highly unlikely to be hooked up to some crummy
> speed-changing hardware.
>
> I had a 1 GHz Pentium III box with the same problem.
> Linux would give up on the perfectly-correct 1 GHz
> clock source in favor of trying, and failing, to
> count 1 kHz ticks from the crummy old PIT hardware.
> Time loss got so bad that NTP would simply give up.
> IDE activity may have had something to do with it.
>
> In his case, maybe ACPI polls something while
> interrupts are off.
>
>
This morning i tried Andrew Morton's kernel which implements the via-tsc-fix
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0/2.6.0-mm1/broken-out/via-tsc-fix.patch)
the messages are still here (Unknown HZ value! (77) Assume 100.) but after doing
some comparison with my home workstation which has almost the same hardware the
speed seems to be returned on the standards.
Regards.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-25 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-25 3:05 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!" Albert Cahalan
2003-12-25 16:02 ` Giacomo Di Ciocco [this message]
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2003-12-25 18:14 ` Giacomo Di Ciocco
2003-12-25 18:05 ` Albert Cahalan
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2003-12-24 19:12 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks" Giacomo Di Ciocco
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
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