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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:53:42 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with improving mysql performance on 6.2PRE
Message-ID:  <20061012205342.GA62241@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200610120925.k9C9PmUK048690@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <3731.71.56.92.181.1160009571.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> <200610120925.k9C9PmUK048690@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Jerry Bell wrote:
>  > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram.
>  > [...]
>  > changed the clock to TSC
>=20
> As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems.
>=20
> Or did that change recently?

It's only on certain systems, apparently.

Note that you have to enable a second sysctl to allow it to actually
use TSC on SMP, not just change the preferred timecounter.

Kris

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