Re: 2.6.0 "Losing too many ticks!"

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 07:49:06PM +0100, Giacomo Di Ciocco wrote:
> today i found a problem when upgrading the kernel of this box from
> 2.2.20 to 2.6.0, i tried to enable/disable ACPI support in the bios
> and in the kernel but nothing was resolved.
[...]
> Dec 24 16:36:31 xmas kernel: Losing too many ticks!
> Dec 24 16:36:31 xmas kernel: TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are you
> running with SpeedStep?)
> Dec 24 16:36:31 xmas kernel: Falling back to a sane timesource.
> Contact me for more informations. (or tell me to post it here)

This is not particularly harmful. It just means the kernel has detected
some variation in the processor's clock speed and is using a time source
that doesn't change speed along with the processor's clock speed.


-- wli
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