From: Alex T. <al...@fc...> - 2004-02-03 20:13:41
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:01:42PM +0000, Philippe Elie wrote: > > Yes perf counters are, but my question was why there are no > > samples for the 2.6 timer_int mechanism. If I run 2.4, the > > oprofile module uses the RTC and things are fine. > > let me clarify my anwser in the other thread, it's a bug in 2.6 doprofile Ah, ok, that clarifies it. :) But your earlier reply said that IO_APIC was not set/or disabled, and it is set, just not functional on this laptop. Oh, I see, you're saying that although oprofile does say it is using the timer_int, it is not doing that correctly because it thinks that an IO_APIC is available but it's not. So the cure then is to disable the IO_APIC in the kernel config file? I'll try that. Thanks, Alex |