From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 30 02:04:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA26445 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA26423 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id CAA22370 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:02:46 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA13986 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:21:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00930 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:21:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id BAA10336 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:58:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601300058.BAA10336@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:58:32 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9601291730.AA05796@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Jan 29, 96 12:30:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > > CPU: Pentium (76.42-MHz 586-class CPU) > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > Mine is 90MHz. > > Your timer/counter is bogus. Complain to the vendor. My machine at work claims 99.95 MHz since i've upgraded it to -current today. It displayed 100 MHz with 2.0.5. I still believe abusing this timer to generate the system clock is not the way to go. You cannot sue anybody for the CPU-internal timer not being accurate within 1E-5 or so (and that's what is needed for a freestanding clock). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)