On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:15 , Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Eirik Oeverby wrote: > >> > >> > >>On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >>>>Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal. > >>>>However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address > >>>>differences): > >>>> > >>>>30c30 > >>>>< Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > >>>>--- > >>>>>Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > >>>> > >>>>What on earth is that all about? The "slow" box has the ACPI-fast > >>>>timecounter... > >>> > >>>Could be ACPI bugs on your system: > >> > >>Yes, but the other system is 100% equal - hardware, bios config, > >>bios and > >>bootblock revision, controller bioses, etc. etc. > >>It all matches. > > > >Clearly they're not 100% equal, but (100-epsilon)%. Your job is to > >identify the origin of the epsilon :-) > > Yea yea ;) Working on it.. > Is there a way to force ACPI-safe on the slower system?
I think someone already mentioned this..see the kern.timecounter.hardware and other kern.timecounter sysctls. Kris
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