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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:02:21 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Brad Karp <bkarp@icsi.berkeley.edu>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: clock speedup on SMP boxes
Message-ID:  <20010620170220.A19968@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010620120130.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200106201823.f5KINN321282@carp.aciri.org> <XFMail.010620120130.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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In the last episode (Jun 20), John Baldwin said:
> On 20-Jun-01 Brad Karp wrote:
> > Is there any SMP developer I should directly notify (though I
> > presume he already reads -smp), in the interest of having this
> > fixed for all SMP users? Or is it low priority, compared with other
> > SMP development work underway?
> 
> Most of the SMP developers already read -smp.  I, personally, cannot
> think of a reason off the top of my head why the clock would be sped
> up under a loaded SMP system.
> 
> > Or is there reason to believe that -CURRENT would behave better?

I don't have any clock skew problems on two Dell PowerEdge 1300 2-cpu
boxes running 4.3, nor on a SuperMicro 2-cpu box running -current. 
All 3 occasionally run at 100% cpu for hours at a time.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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