Re: [BUG] Clock always faster

[Andy Green <andy warmcat com>]

Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> It could be a bug in the BIOS.  I recently dealt with some AMD64 X2 boxes 
> (from Alienware) that had a really big issue similar to this because of the 
> way the BIOS was configuring (or not properly configuring) the APIC.  If we 
> ran an SMP kernel on those boxes under those conditions, the delay loop was 
> seriously miscalibrated and we would see the clock stall & jump.  It also 
> made it extremely difficult to type as the briefest of touches to a key would 
> cause anywhere from 2-20 keypresses to register, even after we had turned the 
> keyboard repeat rates all the way down.
>
>
>   
Sounds familiar:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223

-Andy