From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 22 04:44:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25749 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25742 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 04:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11058; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:39:47 +0100 (CET) To: John Hay cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock code working properly in -current? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Feb 1998 14:34:22 +0200." <199802221234.OAA11729@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:39:47 +0100 Message-ID: <11056.888151187@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199802221234.OAA11729@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>, John Hay writes: >Hi, > >The new clock code seems to be broken (for me at least) or is there >something that I must do/set/configure to make things work again? > >With kernels build today, both my 90MHz Pentium UP machine and my 266MHz >PII SMP machine gain a lot of time. The Pentium gain about 2 seconds per >minute and the SMP machine about 1 second per minute. Needless to say >xntpd can't cope with a frequency error that big. Previously xntpd and >ntp-4 reported a 24ppm error on the Pentium and a -297ppm error on the >SMP machine. Yes, please boot with '-v', and send me the dmesg output & the output of sysctl -a. Add CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION and CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION to your kernel, and repeat. >One other strange thing that I noticed is that "systat -vmstat" on the >SMP machine reports the clk0 interrupt rate as 50 and the rtc0 rate as >64, while on the UP machine it is still reported as 100 and 128 like >before. This is unrelated I belive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message