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Date:      Fri, 6 May 2005 04:20:28 +0200
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clock running fast
Message-ID:  <143247072.20050506042028@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEEPFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <995071073.20050505131333@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEEPFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> It is probably a tossup between the i8254 driver taking cycles to run
> and an internal kernel counter based off the CPU clock taking cycles to
> run.

I was talking about SMM, which steals cycles invisibly and also allows
mystery software to run in the BIOS.

-- 
Anthony




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