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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:07:49 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com
Subject:   Re: 13 months of user time? 
Message-ID:  <938.903694069@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:41:45 -0000." <199808210241.CAA05733@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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In message <199808210241.CAA05733@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
>> 
>> >[...] the machine I was having problems with was 
>> >running apm, so it used the i8254 timecounter rather than the tsc 
>> >counter.
>> 
>> Ahh... I bet that is it:  APM sucks.
>> 
>> Try to disable APM and see if you can reproduce it, I'll bet you
>> my collection of genuine 11 row punched cards that you can't.
>
>We've already had a respondent indicate that they are seeing the 
>symptoms on non-APM systems.

I didn't see that, and I doubt it until the repondent double-checks
his bios settings...

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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