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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:35:37 +0100
From:      "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kan@sti.cz>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern_clock.c (was: video mode switching has gone south)
Message-ID:  <366258D8.FEB15254@sti.cz>
References:  <199811300431.PAA20359@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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I am experiencing this problem on a Pentium II 350MHz box running
FreeBSD-current as of November 25th. Applying proposed patch solved the
problem.


Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> My system is running a Cyrix 686MX PR266, so this doesn't seem to be
> >> limited to the AMD processors.
> >
> >Well, it affects my laptop also (Intel Pentium 200MHz MMX).  I do
> >not run xntpd, but I am running the kernel at HZ=1000.
>
> Increasing HZ certainly amplifies the old bug.  The timecounters will
> cycle every NTIMECOUNTER/hz seconds, and problems occur if handling a
> bunch of interrupts (or one heavweight interrupt) ever takes longer
> than this.  You need to increase NTIMECOUNTER to 10 times what would
> work for HZ=100.
>
> Bruce
>
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