Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:56:07 -0800 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, Matt Rudderham <matt@researcher.com> Subject: Re: CPU Speed? Message-ID: <20001205205607.A93654@sigbus.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001205194926.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20001206023233.8112D3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <XFMail.001205194926.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On the subject of Re: CPU Speed?, John Baldwin stated:
Doesnt work on my P2/450 nor my P3-1Ghz machines.
>
> On 06-Dec-00 Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > Matt Rudderham wrote:
> >>
> >> > Otter wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > sysctl kern.clockrate
> >> > > kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 10000, tickadj = 5, profhz = 1024,
> >> > > stathz = 128 }
> >> >
> >> > This appears to be meaningless, as it is the same on all computers (I
> >> > tried two, and they're both identical to yours).
> >> Me as well, a 133MHz and a 200MHz system both come up with above
> >> response. I am interested in the answer now though:)
> >
> > I believe this might be your answer:
> >
> > dima@hornet# sysctl machdep.tsc_freq machdep.tsc_freq: 498853267
>
> This is only present for Pentium's or later. This will not work on 386 and
> 486, nor will it work on an Alpha, IA/64, PPC, etc.
>
> --
>
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