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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Marco Trentini <mark@remotelab.org>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another updated RTC driver for vmware users to try
Message-ID:  <20040224170758.N772@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040223202136.GH657@einstein.lab>
References:  <20040217023115.W17031@odysseus.silby.com> <20040223202136.GH657@einstein.lab>

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Marco Trentini wrote:

> Great work!

Thanks, I have gone ahead and committed this edition of the driver to the
ports tree.

> What value should have the kernel HZ option?
> About 1000? Is 1300 proper?

Good question, I'm not exactly sure.  Higher should be better, but as far
as I can tell, the rtc driver is really not the limiting factor in VMWare
performance anymore.  So, I think 1000 HZ should be sufficient for normal
operation.  The major exception to this would be in situations where the
virtual machine uses a large hz setting that approaches your system's hz
setting.

I may take that hz warning out in the next version, I'm still thinking
about it.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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