Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:55:18 -0600 From: "P.D. Seniura" <pdseniura@techie.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2 suddenly became 45% slower!) Message-ID: <20040507005518.75B6A79004C@ws1-14.us4.outblaze.com>
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> > It seems this bug happens when the HZ value goes below 16 > > (either by compiling 'options HZ=' in kernel or setting > > sysctl 'kern.hz=' in /boot/loader.conf). The computed > > 'ticks' value becomes too large for 2-byte int producing > > crazy overflowed numbers elsewhere. > > 16 is pretty low.. > Then again it would be nice if it warned you or something similar when you > tried it :) Heh, I got HZ set to 20 while it does buildworld (~9 hours) and portupgrade overnight. The idea is "less slicing and more doing". ;) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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