Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:24:13 -0500 |
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On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:45 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Clock ticks get lost all the time. The BIOS may decide do grab the > CPU in SMM (system management mode) for many milliseconds at a time.
And FWIW such systems should be considered horribly broken - this behavior renders them useless for a wide range of common applications.
Lee
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