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Date:      Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:00:06 -0400
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System clock out of control
Message-ID:  <20001022160006.A86218@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001022161753.65DAD5D5A@tomservo.vrac.iastate.edu>; from patrick@137.org on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:17:53AM -0500
References:  <20001022161753.65DAD5D5A@tomservo.vrac.iastate.edu>

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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:17:53AM -0500, Patrick Hartling wrote:
> Last weekend, I installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on a machine loaned to me by a
> friend.  It's got a Cyrix MediaGX in it which is something I've not dealt
> with before.  After getting 4.1.1 installed, I promptly cvsup'd the
> 4-STABLE sources for October 14, rebuilt and installed a custom kernel.
> Since doing that, the system clock has been ticking off about 10 seconds
> for each real second which is certainly undesirable.  The GENERIC kernel
> for 4.1.1 and October 14 work just fine, however.  I've been making
> custom kernels since 2.1.5, and I have never seen anything like this before.
> This machine was replacing one that was already running 4-STABLE from late
> August, and I based the custom kernel for this replacement machine on the
> older one.
> 

*snip*

> FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Sun Oct 22 03:19:44 CDT 2000
>     root@gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Cyrix GXm (19.73-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CyrixInstead"  Id = 0x540  DIR=0x6246  Stepping=6  Revision=2

I don't know what is causing it, but I bet your time problems have to do
with FreeBSD seeing a processor speed of 19.73-MHz.

-- 
Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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