* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> > >
> > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the
> > > speed of network transfers?
> >
> > Absolutely not.
>
> Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unstable it _can_ cause all
> kinds of weird things. If you think something is broken in the tsc
> stuff, please switch to using another clocksource.
also, if it gets marked unstable (which is typical on laptops) then the
kernel switches to a more stable, non-TSC clocksource automatically.
(hpet or pit)
Ingo
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