Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:31:15 +0100 From: Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@gmail.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timecounter problems on 5.3 - things take twice as long Message-ID: <d86b48730412111531629ed770@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041207125605.N30769@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <d86b4873041202105422e501a2@mail.gmail.com> <20041204161351.F434@carver.gumbysoft.com> <d86b487304120604542b89f02b@mail.gmail.com> <20041206185901.W23442@carver.gumbysoft.com> <d86b487304120706252944058c@mail.gmail.com> <20041207105412.I30209@carver.gumbysoft.com> <d86b4873041207122519eb32f1@mail.gmail.com> <20041207125605.N30769@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Hey Doug, On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:57:01 -0800 (PST), Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Arjan Van Leeuwen wrote: > > > > > In other words, exactly the same thing. I should also note that > > > > earlier versions of 5-CURRENT worked correctly (-CURRENT from june 7). > > > > Is there anything else I could try? > > > > > > Replace the motherboard? :) The i8254 hasn't changed in years, so I doubt > > > we're programming it wrong. Something along the way is applying a /2 > > > divisor. Maybe its been broken forever and you only recnetly noticed due > > > to the HZ change? > > > > Heh :). > > > > No, this is on 5.3-RELEASE and I've been running with HZ=1000 for a > > long time, because I use DUMMYNET. > > Good to know. Can you try booting an old kernel, or booting 5.2.1-R and > see if it shows up there too? If it works with 5.2.1, then I'd start > playing the binary-search game to find the commit(s) that broke you. Sorry for the late reply, I needed some time to try out older kernels. Looks like it's a hardware fault. Kernels that worked correctly in the past have the same problems if I boot them now. It probably had nothing to do with me upgrading to 5.3-RELEASE at all. Thanks for the help, Arjan
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