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Date:      Sat, 9 Jul 2005 09:36:50 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        JR Dalrymple <jr@jrssite.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: clock WAY off
Message-ID:  <200507090936.51518.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <42CEAD70.4030008@jrssite.com>
References:  <42CDC11E.10301@jrssite.com> <20050708093130.GB21072@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <42CEAD70.4030008@jrssite.com>

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On Friday 08 July 2005 12:44 pm, JR Dalrymple wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:56:14PM -0800, JR Dalrymple wrote:
> >>The clock seems to be running at about 1/4 speed (SMP related maybe?).
>
> <Off list reply>
>
> >If you also post the output of "sysctl kern.timecounter" and "vmstat
> >-i" to the list, it may help diagnose the problem.
>
> genie# sysctl kern.timecounter
> kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
> kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 357873388
> kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0
> kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 8296
> kern.timecounter.nbintime: 153797574
> kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 171942
> kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 153621939
> kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 656730
> kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 40589
> kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 161872387
> kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0
> kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0
> kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 26596618
> kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 623
> kern.timecounter.hardware: i8254
> kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
> kern.timecounter.tick: 1
> kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0
> genie# vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq1: atkbd0                         232          0
> irq6: fdc0                            10          0
> irq10: fxp0 ahc1                 5247043         73
> irq11: amr0 ahc0                 3305544         46
> irq13: npx0                            1          0
> lapic0: timer                  532488625       7412
> lapic4: timer                  532404584       7411
> lapic1: timer                  532404584       7411
> lapic2: timer                  532404584       7411
> Total                         2138255207      29766
>
>
>
> I can kind of make sense of what this is trying to help me, but it's
> above my head as far as how to tune it.
>
> Thanks again for any help

This should be fixed now as the i8254 timer was broken when used with APIC for 
a while.

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