The newer MCP61+ chipsets have busted Interrupt Routing when HPET is turned on. When you enable HPET in the bios, 8254 timer0 stops working/counting!
Solution? Turn OFF hpet and force enable hpet (in linux). It appears to still count even though the BIOS says it’s disabled. Another intresting note, HPET on MCP boards
runs at 25mhz, but I don’t think they are reporting their correct operating frequencies.
Phenom:
nothing: 67 cycles
locked add: 80 cycles
cpuid: 116 cycles
Opteron 275:
nothing: 8 cycles
locked add: 6 cycles
cpuid: 61 cycles
Intel Woodcrest:
nothing: 60 cycles
locked add: 72 cycles
cpuid: 264 cycles
Once upon a time, GlobalFrag was hosted with us (Colocrossing) …
Every single month of service we provided, they never paid their bills on time. This is fine for most people, however, the excuses they
provided us became even more ridiculous after each month.
One day a little birdy told us they intended on defaulting on their bills with us to go with another host that saved them like 2% or something per month. Finally; after 3 weeks of no payment, we turned them off (with a bunch of enthusiasm, I might add). The night we turned them off, the “CEO”, or a lack of better word, was on AIM begging us to turn him back on. He sent an eCheck to us, but the day it was supposed to clear he cancelled it. I assume he did this because he wanted enough time to move his 30 customers off his machines on to his new dedicated machines.
People, if a company does this to another company, how do you think he runs his business?
BTW, The REAL owner of GlobalFrag is no Alex Wang, it’s Ai Wang, his mother.
There are no excuses. You either pay your bills on time and be a good customer, or you pay your bills late and lie about what’s going on.
What happens when you don’t pay your electric bill? IT GETS SHUT OFF.