Re: Timing on your Dual Pentium II

Bert de Bruijn (bob@ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:07:42 +0200

In article <371CD098.5B7C49D1@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> you wrote:
: I saw that you have a Dual Pentium II machine, too.
:
: Could you please try out, how long a
:
: sleep 10
:
: lasts? On my machine it lasts 55 seconds. Strange, isn't it?

Are you, by any chance, using the XFree86-3DLabs server (version 3.3.3 or
so ?).
That server messed poked a value into a clock register (by mistake, it used
"80" instead of "0x80" or so) and slowed the clock of the system down with a
factor 5.5 too.
But that bug has been fixed for quite some time now.

--
/* Bert de Bruijn            E-mail: bob@ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be */
/*  http://www.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be/students/Bert.de.Bruijn/  */


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/