That is awesome... Not that you had the problem, just that it was something so "needle in the haystack-ish" and you found it!
~c > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Pernegger > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Inaccurate time problem SOLVED (was RE: [slim] Slimbox-Newbie > withquestions) > Importance: Low > > Hi again and sorry to reply to myself ... > > The problems that I had, i. e. > - strange behaviour of the "next letter" timeout in searches via remote > - displayed stuff on the squeezebox vanishing too quickly > - wildly fluctuationg time with the daylight screensaver > > were all caused by a glitch in the server's time source. A 'watch -n 1 -d > ntptime', while crude, showed the same skewed results. Apparently most > reasonably modern CPU have TSC capability, which basically means using the > CPU's clock generator as an accurate time source. I had 'AMD 76x native > power management' in my .config, which seems to change frequency on the > fly > without notifying the timers -> go figure. > The same could happen with any other kind of non-cpufreq throttling - if > you > don't want to disable it, disabling TSC altogether (kernel option + notsc > boot option) works, but is not recommended. > > C. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
