Re: [Valgrind-users] Scheduler problem

[Sebastian K. <Seb...@so...>]

At first (this is my first post here), hello to everyone, especially
developers -- thanks for creating such great tool (it puts some commercial
$$$ stuff, I was once using, to shame -- V is more powerful, more feature
rich, and on text console is much more useable, than the other $tuff was
with gui)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <je...@go...>
> Quoting Julian Seward <js...@ac...>:
>
> > Try the patch called 09-rdtsc-calibration from
> > http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/valgrind/
>
> I doubt that will help much - that just stops an assertion failure when
getting
> the calibration.  The basic problem is that the TSC is variable-rate, and
> therefore useless as a timebase.

Well, using TSC for counting time is not *The Right Thing(tm)*. Is it
impossible to use some other measurement instead (at best OS provided)? What
are the issues?

rgds
Sebastian Kaliszewski