Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:52:04 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Kern.timecounter.hardware issues Message-ID: <006701c38292$45ecaa80$04fea8c0@moe>
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Hi, The following appeared in my daily security run output: curly.howse.no-ip.org kernel log messages: > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 300683473 Hz I have a Celeron 300 CPU, if that matters. A quick Google for 'Timecounter "TSC" frequency' led me to believe that I should change the hardware timecounter to i8254 with: sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=3Di8254 I did that, rebooted, and ran sysctl -a again, only to see that kern.timecounter.hardware had reverted to TSC. I have both i8254 and TSC showing in dmesg. Should I make the change permanent across reboots, and if so, how? BTW, are any of you getting the same messages from this list over and over again? I am, I wonder what's going on? Thanks, Charles Got a computer with idle CPU time? Join SETI@home and help make history! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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