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Jimi Thompson <jimit@myrealbox.com> writes:

> That web page said to enter this command (which I do not have a good
> understanding of but did anyway)
> 
> # sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1
> 
> which I did, but apparently my 5.0 doesn't like that because it
> promptly spit back:
> 
> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method'

Does 5.0 *have* that sysctl?
"sysctl kern.timecounter.method" will tell you.

The handbook is still primarily oriented toward 4.x, because 5.x isn't
officially ready for production use yet.