On Monday 05 of September 2011 06:42:35 ron minnich wrote: > The TSC has been badly abused by the chip makers over the last ten > years. It went through a period of time where it had poor accuracy. Be > sure to look at your hardware and make sure it's a later chip which > will give you reasonable TSC behavior.
FWIW, Pentium M had `broken' TSC behavior. during boot, linux complains, ``TSC halts in idle'' and refuses to use it as clock source. apparently TSC counts actual CPU clock impulses, and those are slowed down in idle. -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] For example, if the first thing in the file is: <?kzy irefvba="1.0" rapbqvat="ebg13"?> an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))
