On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:53 -0500, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
The powernow-k8 driver in SL9.3 caused clock instability on SMP machines that did not support HPET timers; SL10.0 and the mainstream kernel support PMTimer for those machines. That's most likely what you were seeing.
Just for anybody else reading the archives, it might be worth noting that on some machines at least it is possible to enable/disable the HPET timer in the BIOS. So if you have a fast clock problem, it's worth checking the BIOS settings to see that HPET is enabled. Cheers, Dave
The single processor, dual-core problem is believed to be something different and is under investigation at AMD. We will make a statement as soon as we have definite information.
-Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.