From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 03:09:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA01283 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 03:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA01277 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 03:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA12354; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:03:56 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA13085; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:16:34 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199608071016.MAA13085@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: time calibration messages - to worry about? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:16:33 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de In-Reply-To: <199608061919.FAA16470@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Aug 7, 96 05:19:33 am" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I'm getting these kernel messages during boot: > > >Jul 27 16:00:14 isdn /kernel: Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818 > >A clock... > >Jul 27 16:00:14 isdn /kernel: i8254 clock: 1217043 Hz > >Jul 27 16:00:14 isdn /kernel: 1217043 Hz differs from default of 119318 > >2 Hz by more than 1% > > This means that one of your clocks, or the clock calibration method, is > inaccurate by more than 1% (15 minutes/day). Fine, but why? :-) > > Bruce > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de