Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264265AbUIOJKH (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:10:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264147AbUIOJFy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:05:54 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:13085 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263962AbUIOJDc (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:03:32 -0400 Message-ID: <41480542.9030305@zensonic.dk> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:02:58 +0200 From: "Thomas S. Iversen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Losing too many ticks! .... on a VIA epia board References: <4146A09A.9010207@zensonic.dk> <41476812.7000401@zensonic.dk> <41480401.8030903@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <41480401.8030903@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 20 Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > | Well, I made a kernel without acpi support and the problem went away. > | Any clues to why that solved the problem? > > Frequency scaling or anything alike? Have you tried using acpi pm timer? > This should prevent you from losing ticks. Yeah, I found the acpi pm timer (a new option) and the problem went away. I haven't got any frequency scaling included, so it's simply ACPI calls which makes the system lose to many ticks :-( Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/