On Dec 8, 2007 10:47 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does the patch below help? But the root cause is likely some timer > problems - do you get consistent results from: >
Haven't yet tried the patch - will try a little later. > while :; do time usleep 1111111; done > > or do these sleeps fluctuate? > They seem to fluctuate - not sure if that's supposed to be exact or if below variations are normal - This is when my compiles are running - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ while :; do time usleep 1111111; done real 0m1.116s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s real 0m1.112s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s real 0m1.130s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s real 0m1.144s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s Thanks Parag -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/