Re: Losing too many ticks! .... on a VIA epia board
From: Thomas S. Iversen
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 04:14:32 EST
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
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