Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:26:07 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, marcs@znep.com Cc: skafte@worldgate.com Subject: Re: The alternate system clock has died! Message-ID: <199612070926.UAA21725@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>"The alternate system clock has died!". I remember talk of this problem > >Was this issue ever resolved? Does it cause any more serious >problems? It looks like cp_time stops getting updated; would I be >right to guess that cp_time is just an alternate clock used only >for profiling type things? Not resolved. It stops scheduling from working fairly. The statistics clock is used for scheduling, for division of process time into real/user/sys and for profiling type things. Kicking the clock by setting the kernel variable `ipending' to 0x100 will probably restart it. Bruce
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