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Jerry Bell wrote:
 > I have a Dell PE2950 with 2 dual core 3.73Ghz processors and 4G of ram.
 > [...]
 > changed the clock to TSC

As far as I know, it is unsafe to use TSC on SMP systems.

Or did that change recently?

Best regards
   Oliver

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