Re: Losing too many ticks! .... on a VIA epia board

Thomas S. Iversen
2004-09-15T09:10:07Z

Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:

> | Well, I made a kernel without acpi support and the problem went away.
> | Any clues to why that solved the problem?
>
> Frequency scaling or anything alike? Have you tried using acpi pm timer?
> This should prevent you from losing ticks.

Yeah, I found the acpi pm timer (a new option) and the problem went away.
I haven't got any frequency scaling included, so it's simply ACPI calls
which
makes the system lose to many ticks :-(

Thomas