Kernel clock issue "Clocksource tsc unstable"

[Hal Burgiss]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:18:29PM -0500, Rashkae wrote:
> 
> wow,, your hardware is a bit limited, with no hpet timer and no pic

The older one is dual P3's in an IBM server box. It ran fine for years
on CentOS and probably Gentoo before that, so this is all curious.
Either the hardware has gotten funky or something in the ubuntu server
kernel is funky. The newer one is a brand new AMD Opteron. 

> timer.. (pic was the old standard timer).   Jiffies, as I understand,
> should be avoided like the plague and is only included for special
> cases.  (Jiffies is basically the software counting time based on cpu
> clock frequency or some such.)
> 
> I would try adding clocksource=acpi_pm to the boot of both your systems
> and see if that solves the problem.

Thanks. I'll give that a shot. 

-- 
Hal