On 11:35 Sat 22 Oct , Richard Mace wrote: > Nathan, > > I can empathise. I have a two week old HP NX6125 notebook that also suffers > from the same problem. I think that you have identified the bug correctly as > #3927. I've just checked bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3927 and the > status is ASSIGNED. The owner is Andi Kleen (at suse). As far as I can tell > there are some patches available, but none deemed "stable" enough to > incorporate into current kernels. > The ChangeLog-2.6.14-rc5 has this fix for TSC timers: Author: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Oct 13 14:41:44 2005 -0700
[NET]: Disable NET_SCH_CLK_CPU for SMP x86 hosts Opterons with frequency scaling have fully unsynchronized TSCs running at different frequencies, so using TSCs there is not a good idea. Also some other x86 boxes have this problem. gettimeofday should be good enough, so just disable it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have had the 'lost ticks' problem with AMD x2 dual cpu and SMP. Now i am running kernel-2.6.14-rc5 and the problem appears fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]