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Date:      Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:20:44 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Subject:   Re: Pending issues
Message-ID:  <200508021720.45054.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <42EFDE40.8030509@centtech.com>
References:  <42EFD785.5000409@centtech.com> <200508021648.52520.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <42EFDE40.8030509@centtech.com>

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On Tuesday 02 August 2005 04:57 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 04:28 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>Ok, here's a small list of issues pending that I can see on -current
> >>(and I saw these on 6- branch too before 7.0).
> >>
> >>- Time ticks along correctly, but anything using an interval will be 2x
> >>off.  For instance - ping will only send a ping every 2 seconds instead
> >>of every second.  systat -vmstat 1 refreshes every 2 seconds, etc.
> >>Disabling APIC 'fixes' it.
> >
> > Are you using the i8254 timecounter or some other timecounter?
>
> kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
> kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast
>
> Which is the default (I'm not forcing anything anywhere).  I believe at
> one time I tried i8254, but it made no difference.  I can try it again
> if you think it's a worthy experiment.

I would try both i8254 and TSC and see if it makes a difference.

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