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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:53:30 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Herve Boulouis <amon@sockar.homeip.net>
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Subject: Re: Strange timing problems with BETA7
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:46:47AM +0200, Herve Boulouis wrote:

> I'm having very strange stability problems with BETA7 which seems related to timing/clock :
> 
> Hardware is a Netra t 1125 with 2 CPU.
> 
> Symptoms :

Can you please do:

	dmesg | grep -i time

This might have something to do with the recent timecounter changes.
I get this for output on an E250 with dual processors:

initializing counter-timer
Timecounter "counter-timer" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec

I'm worried that you might not have 'counter-timer'.

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