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Tashtego
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: Weird dmesg 'Losing too many ticks!' |
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A few days after my Gentoo install, (and after some other fiddling), I ran dmesg and noted this at the end:
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Losing too many ticks!
TSC cannot be used as a timesource.
Possible reasons for this are:
You're running with Speedstep,
You don't have DMA enabled for your hard disk (see hdparm),
Incorrect TSC synchronization on an SMP system (see dmesg).
Falling back to a sane timesource now. |
What does this mean? And what can I do to fix this up, give that there appears to be a problem?
Thanks! |
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hds
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Joined: 21 Aug 2004
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Location: Sprockhoevel [GER]
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:41 am Post subject: |
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CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER:
The Power Management Timer is available on all ACPI-capable, in most cases even if ACPI is unusable or blacklisted. This timing source is not affected by powermanagement features like aggressive processor idling, throttling, frequency and/or voltage scaling, unlike the commonly used Time Stamp Counter (TSC) timing source. So, if you see messages like 'Losing too many ticks!' in the kernel logs, and/or you are using a this on a notebook which does not yet have an HPET, you should say "Y" here. |
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Deathwing00
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Moved from Installing Gentoo. |
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