On 2006-12-17 03:57, John Andersen wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 01:06, ByteEnable wrote:
>
>   
>> What will that accomplish?  Do you think this is a SMP issue? scheduler?
>> semaphore? spin-lock? what?
>>
>> Byte
>>     
>
> Don't know for sure, but there have been more than a few smp problems 
> of late.  
>
> I have a big issue with x86_64 keyboard character duplication which 
> totally goes away If I set my bios to only show one cpu, OR if I lock
> the X process to a single cpu with taskset.  
>
> Its an easy way to rule an smp issue out (or in).
>
> It would be worth a try, especially if this never happened before on 
> the same hardware, or if it does not currently happen with a live cd
> from say, Kubuntu or Knoppix or some other distro.
>
>   
And on that note, I think it would be instructive to know what
configurations do have this clock problem. What would be needed?
Certainly CPU and kernel version, hyperthreading on/off, what else?

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