From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 22 10:01:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17289 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17282 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:01:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA11818; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:55:35 +0100 (CET) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: John Hay , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock code working properly in -current? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:16:00 PST." <27159.888167760@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:55:35 +0100 Message-ID: <11816.888170135@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <27159.888167760@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> With kernels build today, both my 90MHz Pentium UP machine and my 266MHz >> PII SMP machine gain a lot of time. The Pentium gain about 2 seconds per >> minute and the SMP machine about 1 second per minute. Needless to say >> xntpd can't cope with a frequency error that big. Previously xntpd and >> ntp-4 reported a 24ppm error on the Pentium and a -297ppm error on the >> SMP machine. > >That's pretty interesting since I know of a dual PII box at a friend's >place of work that's been doing *exactly* this ever since SMP entered >-current; it's never worked properly. You know how hard it is to >benchmark a machine who's clock runs twice as fast, too? :-) > >I wonder if this is a bug which has been latent since the beginning >but only bites some people. We asked Steve Passe if he wanted to >borrow the box in question but he was too busy. :( Please boot -v and send me the dmesg & sysctl -a outputs, then add to the kernel config CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION and CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION and send the dmesg & sysctl -a for those too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message