Comment 67 for bug 217815

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:25:43AM -0000, QuentinHartman wrote:
> @Colin King:
>
> On my machine I have hpet, acpi_pm, jiffies, and tsc as available clock
> sources. hpet seems to be the default. Here are my results using the
> daily from the 21st (I think...)
>
> hpet: stalls
> acpi_pm: stalls (perhaps worse than hpet)
> jiffies: Works! If this does not eliminate the stalls, it at least makes them so short they are easily confused with normal processing
> tsc: stalls really badly, worse than hpet or acpi_pm
>
> I'm going to test jiffies a couple more times, but the one run though
> worked great! Remember that this is on real hardware, not KVM!

The problem originally described in this bug report has been isolated, and
found to be specific to KVM, thus yours is not the same bug.

Please move discussion of your problem back to the bug report you filed
(#217849) to avoid confusion.

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 - mdz