it's only necessary to alarm on one mach, not all of them. Notes: not true: the system misbehaves if we only run alarms on cpu0. Reference: /n/sources/patch/sorry/alarm-once Date: Fri May 17 22:26:15 CES 2013 Signed-off-by: quanstro@quanstro.net Reviewed-by: geoff --- /sys/src/9/port/portclock.c Fri May 17 22:25:50 2013 +++ /sys/src/9/port/portclock.c Fri May 17 22:25:49 2013 @@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ exit(0); } - checkalarms(); + if(m->machno == 0) + checkalarms(); if(up && up->state == Running) hzsched(); /* in proc.c */