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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 04:30:51 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Salvatore D'Angelo" <dangelo.sasaman@tiscalinet.it>
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Subject: Re: gettimeofday problem
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Hi!

> On 2000000 call -> 189 times I found the problem (0.00945%)
> On 20000000 call ->1956 found I found the problem (0.00978%)
> 
> Probably you're right my previous percentage is too high (the one above 
> should be the correct one).
> 
> But do you think that this behaviour is normal?

Buggy hardware and kernel that is not able to work around that. Try
googling or asking vojtech pavlik, there should be patches to fix
this.

What chipset?
									Pavel
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