Re: gettimeofday non-monotonic on SMP 2.3.47

From: Boris Okun (bokun@home.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 22:59:43 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Hmm maybe your timer chip is not reporting the time passed since the last
> timeout correctly.

Faulty hardware is certainly a possibility, but how can it be SMP
specific?
Is there any other way to test?
I must admit that I don't know what I am talking about. Is this chip on
the motherboard or on the processors? For example, would swapping the
processors help?

Boris

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