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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Parallel laplink abuse leads to death of kernel secondary timer
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 21:10:35 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Mike Mc Gaughey <mmcg@cs.monash.edu.au>

Mike Mc Gaughey wrote:
> leaving it dead?  Does anyone know why it dies?  Does the (large) time
> spent processing printer port interrupts mean that clock-related
> interrupts are lost, resulting in the (permanent) failure of the
> secondary clock?  Is there a software fix for this?  Should I be
> looking at my hardware setup?

Lots of questions.. :-)

Much of the pentium timer code has changed since 2.1R - before everyone
dives in to try and debug this rather interesting problem you've brought
up, would it be possible for you to upgrade to 2.1.5 when that's
released next week?
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project