Re: Lost Ticks

[Frank van Maarseveen]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:23:40PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Got a dual core Athlon 64 X2 on an Asus board using NVidia chipset and 
> getting lost ticks. The software clock of course is totally messed up. 
> I've scanned google for a solution and see others complaining about bad 
> code in the SMM BIOS. I have the latest bios and whatever they need to 
> fix - isn't.
> 
> So - what do I do to make it work?

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105

On the kernel command-line:

x86_64:	try "notsc"
i386:	try "clock=pit"

"nosmp" works but isn't fun.

-- 
Frank
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