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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cpu-timer rate
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
kama, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different
> clocks. But that does not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000
> when I have set the hz to 1000.

Because the rate is always twice hz.


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