On 12/14/05, Noah J Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 02:03 am, Richard Fish wrote: > > I think if you were getting messages about lost ticks or got extra > > ticks or something like that, these might be helpful, or if your > > system seemed either to slow or too unresponsive. Of course, if your > > clock is defaulting to TSC (which would be bad, BTW), then I guess > > these could have a big impact. > > i have gotton lost tick messages > and apic errors mostly
Hmm, didn't you mention that somewhere already....oh yeah, your orignal message! (bangs head on desk). Plus, you also said noapic fixes the problem, so forget everything I said, and try these options. > > Take a look at dmesg or /var/log/messages for the following lines: > > > > Using TSC for gettimeofday > > Using HPET for gettimeofday > > Using .* for high-res timesource > Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Looks good...pmtmr is what I get on my pentium-m laptop, and is the default, and should be fairly reliable... Did you try any other clock= options? Any better results? > should an amd64 use HPET ? i do not have this enabled in kernel config (note > running in 32 bit mode ) Not sure about this one...just got my first AMD64 system this past weekend, and I am still trying to get things setup...maybe someone else can answer. One other boot option that might help: no_timer_check It is a x86_64 specific option (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt). I don't think this has anything to do with 32/64 bit code though...so maybe you have this already (does your kernel build as x86_64/arch/boot/bzImage?) > other thing i noticed in dmesg do i need to enable smp support in the kernel ? > this is a single processor system that i know of . does amd do any type of > hyperthreading ? Nope, no hyperthreading in AMD. And I think AMD is expected to release their first dual-core mobile chips sometime next year. Unfortunately Intel is going to beat them to market and my wallet. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
