Re: GTK Performance on Athlon

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 09:21 -0500, Michael Kahn wrote:
> A few months ago, I bought an HP Athlon PC and installed SuSE 9.2.
> The system clock took off at warp speed (about three times normal
> speed).  When I emailed SuSE, they told me that the BIOS does not
> provide a solid real-time clock interrupt.  (One side-effect of the
> warp speed system clock was I could not “double click” on anything.)
> They felt that they may have a fix for this problem in SUSE 10.0.  It
> may be that the Athlon clock fix in SUSE 10.0 is what is hindering
> your GTK performance.  I really hope this isn’t your problem.

it sounds quite likely that you have been the victim of some slightly
uninformed customer support. was this a dual core Athlon?