CentOS virt - Jan 2008 - tick_divider kernel parameter for guest vm

When upstream released 5.1, everybody wanted to test a new kernel
parameter that could adjust the system clock rate at boot time to
something else than the standard 1000Hz clock rate.
A lot of testings has been done (thanks to Akemi Yagi for her great
work) and you can see the results here :
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189

As you can read at the bottom of the comments, it seems it was a typo in
the official RH Release Notes : you'd have to read divider= and *NOT*
tick_divider=  ! (see
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html)

It seems so to work with the correct kernel parameter and so there is no
need to build a kernel-vm for CentOS 5.1 guests .. (it's still needed
for example for 4.x ..)

Keep on reading the comments on bugs.centos.org for further
informations ... I assume that upstream release notes will be corrected
to reflect the real parameter

-- 
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
Solution ? 
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> As you can read at the bottom of the comments, it seems it was a typo in
> the official RH Release Notes : you'd have to read divider= and *NOT*
> tick_divider=  ! (see
>
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html)
Would still be good to see some benchmarks done with and without this 
option against the stock and -vm kernels.

- KB

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