Re: Re: many lost ticks, clock drifts problems also with debian smp kernel?

[remi.delmas.3000@free.fr]

Hi mike,

as a linux newbie there are some terms I don't get quite well

> This is a kernel problem with SMP having unsynced TSC's running at

what is a TSC?

> different freqs, supposedly fixed in kernel 2.6.14. Before 2.6.14 i
> needed to boot with pci=noacpi and clock=pmtmr to solve the 'lost
> 'ticks'.

what does the clock=pmtmr bootparam do?


> A Debian kernel won't change anything. assuming you have a similar config
> (e.g. HPET_TIMER=y PM_TIMER=y). You may want to post this on the LKML.

what is HPET_TIMER=y ?
what is PM_TIMER=y ?

and what is LKML?

Thanks