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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #103

Comment 103 for bug 620074

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In , funtoos (funtoos-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

> Well, looks like there's a good reason why machines hang with clock=jiffies.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/21/402
>

This means I need to recompile kernel without high resolution timer and then pass clocksource=jiffies?

Do we have an explanation for why the freezing period reduced to half with acpi_pm and to a quarter with jiffies for Thomas? I would have thought faster timers will result in better behavior and it was a step in the future direction. But we seem to be going backwards.