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Subject: Re: cpu timer issues
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on 28/09/2010 10:54 Jurgen Weber said the following:
> # dmesg | grep Timecounter
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
> kern.timecounter.hardware: i8254
> 
> Only have one timer to choose from.

Can you provide a little bit more of "hard" data than the above?
Specifically, the following sysctls:
kern.timecounter
dev.cpu

Output of vmstat -i.
_Verbose_ boot dmesg.

Please do not disable ACPI when taking this data.
Preferably, upload it somewhere and post a link to it.
-- 
Andriy Gapon