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Re: [LUG] Jiffies and the perils of not properly solving a problem properly

 

On 26/03/12 21:22, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Who knows? How would you find out?
> 
> Really don't know 

Seems emailing the relevant kernel subsystem maintainers gets you a
response within the hour ;)

Apparently enabling "jiffies" switches off the high resolution timers,
since you can't switch between high res and low res timers (except at
boot), jiffies is removed because you can't just do "echo jiffies
>/sys/..blah..blah../current_clocksource".

See also:

http://elinux.org/High_Resolution_Timers

I've seen comments that possibly postgres expects high resolution timers.

On the other hand if you have a borked Xen 3 guest with HVM and SMP you
should have used KVM, or Citrix, or upgraded to Xen 4 or somehow not
start from here...

Meantime our boxes have gone from drastic time issues to not great but
ntpd doesn't complain any more.

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