linux-kernel - Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?

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Message-ID: <20080414162911.GC7387@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:29:11 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Marc Perkel <mperkel@...oo.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:23:54AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> That, too, is clearly unrealistic, or NTP would be useless except on 
> dedicated systems.

Well I have certainly encountered quite a few systems now where ntp
never converged if spread spectrum was enabled in the BIOS.  Disabling
it on the other hand made ntp have no issues converging just fine.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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