From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 17:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0F337B423; Wed, 16 May 2001 17:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4H0S0f99954; Thu, 17 May 2001 01:28:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:27:54 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Matt Dillon Cc: Bruce Evans , Terry Lambert , dave , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gettimeofday Again... Message-ID: <20010517012753.A99822@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200105161743.f4GHhEl72847@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105161743.f4GHhEl72847@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:43:14AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > I don't change the timercounter method defaults, and I sure hope you > aren't advocating that people change their timecounter defaults. If > the TSC is a reasonable default, the system should figure it out and > use it without requiring intervention. At the risk of going off at a slight tangent, TSC is not a good default on some hardware. In particular, at least some laptops will start to gain or lose time almost immediately they boot if the timecounter is set to TSC. It has to be set to i8254 in /etc/sysctl.conf. This is covered in the FAQ. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsDGwkACgkQk6gHZCw343VRrgCeIfaMEu910VOMfaxiCT5o519V ukAAn1IlEd4EtsloREYcP6VlfICwTgz3 =6KZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message