Etch T-61 and 2.6.21.5 and VMWare RTC Errors

IO Performance (Network and Disk) was attrocious for a FreeBSD 6.2 VM with the stock 2.6.18-4 Kernel that comes with Etch. Was also getting the dreaded lost interrupts errors:

Jun 28 16:26:59 franz-t61 kernel: bridge-eth1: enabled promiscuous mode
Jun 28 16:27:14 franz-t61 kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 2048Hz.
Jun 28 16:27:34 franz-t61 last message repeated 1000 times
Jun 28 16:27:35 franz-t61 kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz.
Jun 28 16:27:41 franz-t61 last message repeated 312 times
Jun 28 16:27:41 franz-t61 kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 4096Hz.
Jun 28 16:28:12 franz-t61 last message repeated 1533 times
Jun 28 16:28:24 franz-t61 last message repeated 616 times
Jun 28 16:28:24 franz-t61 kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 2048Hz.
Jun 28 16:28:55 franz-t61 last message repeated 1521 times

Upgrading to 2.6.21.5 (and applying the any any patch) seems to helped but am still getting the errors above. But was at least able to SSH into the VM vs. hanging forever like before. Also console sound from the Thinkpad is now working which was not the case with the 2.6.20r8 gentoo. Back to work...