From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180711210634r245d0b9bsc9b3a2a99d008b30@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:34:49 -0700 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] thousands of interrupts per second In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60711210628h12b23b95q7b3d56313c5fbaf4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e60711201435x429477b5t63d50615adc6d074@mail.gmail.com> <66f4188372977d83962b3f9be56af64b@quanstro.net> <14ec7b180711201621o64a014a5j1c96fca737f8a0d8@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60711210628h12b23b95q7b3d56313c5fbaf4@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06879ccc-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 timesync can cause the kernel to think that the cpu has a much different frequency than it really does, which can cause time to speed up, timers to fire much sooner than usual and so on. see what /dev/cputype says...