From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 03:05:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694E037B48E for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 03:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.die.supsi.ch (mail.die.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2302543F75 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 03:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nunnari@die.supsi.ch) Received: from die.supsi.ch (pcm2022.die.supsi.ch [193.5.152.22]) by mail.die.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4RA5PU05384; Tue, 27 May 2003 12:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: <3ED33864.5070907@die.supsi.ch> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:05:24 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <3ED32141.3080608@die.supsi.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 451024462 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:05:28 -0000 the command: # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" fixes the timing error.. what do you think? Should I put it in sysctl.conf? Best regards. Roberto Nunnari wrote: > Hi all. > > I just upgraded my server from 4.7-Stable to 5.0-Release by a full > install. > > Now I hit a problem with the date.. the time goes much faster > than normal.. maybe twice as normal... > > this morning I found the following kernel log in /var/log/messages > > May 26 17:23:58 jupiter kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > May 26 17:23:58 jupiter kernel: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 451024462 Hz > May 26 17:23:58 jupiter kernel: Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency > 3579545 Hz > May 26 17:23:58 jupiter kernel: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > > that was about 17 hours ago.. now date reports: > -bash-2.05b# date > Wed May 28 03:18:18 CEST 2003 > > What's wrong? How can I fix it? > > Please send replies also to my box, as I'm not on the list. > > Thank you. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:nunnari@die.supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento di Informatica e Elettronica http://www.die.supsi.ch SUPSI-DIE Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================