[CentOS] Slow clock on CentOS 4.4 in a VMware VM

[Morten Torstensen]

Scott McClanahan wrote:
> between the guest vm and the host.  Also clock=pit is the recommended
> boot parameter.

Not all systems have sync'ed PIT among the CPUs (NUMA in particular), so 
it is not always a good parameter. Depends on chipset.

There as been quite a few timer related fixes in the centos/upstream 
kernels too, but it should be included in CentOS 4.4.

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