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To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:49:10 CST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:15:52 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Cc: kama <kama@pvp.se>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
	Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: cpu-timer rate 
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> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:49:10 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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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.

While I will concede that I have no explanation, but on all of my systems
rate = HZ +/-1. I have never seen a case where rate/2 = HZ.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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