From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 15:34:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB76416A41C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Chris@LainOS.org) Received: from mail.neovanglist.net (blackacid.neovanglist.net [69.16.150.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F7D43D5E for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Chris@LainOS.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.neovanglist.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.neovanglist.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425936D43E; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:25:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail.neovanglist.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (blackacid.neovanglist.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39562-03; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:25:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (port2030.ds1-vbr.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.246.211]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.neovanglist.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE206D432; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:25:33 -0700 (MST) From: Chris Gilbert To: David Malone , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:57:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050617180321.GA1131@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> <200506210053.34204.Chris@LainOS.org> <20050621090857.GA30759@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20050621090857.GA30759@walton.maths.tcd.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506211257.27765.Chris@LainOS.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at neovanglist.net Cc: Subject: Re: Timekeeping gone whack in 6-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chris@LainOS.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:34:32 -0000 Sure, here's the output: root@Melchior# vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 229099 2 irq13: npx0 1 0 irq14: ata0 829858 7 irq15: ata1 47 0 irq16: fwohci0 1 0 irq18: nvidia0+ 15720743 146 irq19: pcm0 xl0++ 5140361 47 lapic1: timer 388944801 3626 lapic0: timer 388922753 3626 Total 799787664 7456 root@Melchior# sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: i8254 kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 24 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 19375741 kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 3187545739 kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 2799272 kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 3749806 kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 596114548 kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 48763 kern.timecounter.nbintime: 596163279 kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 4395697 kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 30 kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 964366125 kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 The motherboard is a Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M) Using an AMD 760-MPX chipset. -- Thanks, Chris (Lance) Gilbert Ph: +16239791302 (UTC -0700) On Tuesday 21 June 2005 11:08, you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:53:34AM +0200, Chris Gilbert wrote: > > I've noticed since updating my machine from 5.3 to 6-CURRENT that the > > timekeeping on the system goes out of sync very quickly. > > To help diagnose this, you might want to post the output of: > > vmstat -i > sysctl kern.timecounter > > and also the type of your motherboard to the list. > > David.