Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 01:58:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: any ideas about this crash? Message-ID: <199601300058.BAA10336@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9601291730.AA05796@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Jan 29, 96 12:30:57 pm
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As Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > > CPU: Pentium (76.42-MHz 586-class CPU) > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > Mine is 90MHz. > > Your timer/counter is bogus. Complain to the vendor. My machine at work claims 99.95 MHz since i've upgraded it to -current today. It displayed 100 MHz with 2.0.5. I still believe abusing this timer to generate the system clock is not the way to go. You cannot sue anybody for the CPU-internal timer not being accurate within 1E-5 or so (and that's what is needed for a freestanding clock). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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