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Subject: Re: time issues and ZFS
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On 26 January 2013 02:15, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 23/01/2013 18:20 Adrian Chadd said the following:
>> It may be a quirk of an older 9.x, which is fixed in -HEAD. It may be
>> a quirk of the older generation celeron hardware - in which case, we
>> need to tell the user somehow..
>
> This is not software related at all.  It's the hardware feature (or its absence).
> I wonder if your celerons report PBE feature.

What am I looking for?

And personally, requiring (much) more recent hardware to get
sane/correct (btu inefficient) behaviour out of the timekeeping
framework is a little .. suboptimal. :)


Adrian