From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 23: 1:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blue.blueskyfrog.com (blue.blueskyfrog.com [203.185.223.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBFB837B41C for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from gold.internal.blueskyfrog.com ([192.168.121.34]) by blue.blueskyfrog.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16R6Xw-0005Na-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:01:12 +1000 Received: from ns by gold.internal.blueskyfrog.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16R6Xw-0006fX-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:01:12 +1000 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:01:12 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: racing clock Message-ID: <20020117170112.A25151@BlueSkyFrog.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I have a machine which appears to be in a great hurry: orange$ date;sleep 1;date;sleep 1;date Fri Jan 18 06:39:10 EST 2002 Fri Jan 18 06:39:23 EST 2002 Fri Jan 18 06:39:35 EST 2002 The machine is an oldish Acer. Until recently this box ran linux with no apparent issues. dmesg(8) attached; particularly worrying is the alleged cpu speed... Anyone seen this before and can suggest a possible solution? Please CC me on replies as I'm not on -questions. Thanks, Nick -- Excuse of the day: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dmesg.boot" Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #1: Thu Jan 17 13:40:40 EST 2002 ns@orange.internal.blueskyfrog.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ORANGE1 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 19007228 Hz CPU: Cyrix GXm (19.01-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x540 DIR=0x6246 Stepping=6 Revision=2 real memory = 64487424 (62976K bytes) config> di sn0 No such device: sn0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di lnc0 No such device: lnc0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di ie0 No such device: ie0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di fe0 No such device: fe0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di ed0 No such device: ed0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> di cs0 No such device: cs0 Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. config> q avail memory = 60157952 (58748K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0292000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc029209c. Using $PIR table, 2 entries at 0xc00fdf60 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 dc0: port 0x6000-0x607f mem 0xe0000000-0xe00003ff irq 10 at device 7.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:40:c7:99:7b:16 miibus0: on dc0 amphy0: on miibus0 amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto isab0: port 0x5000-0x500f,0x4000-0x401f,0x3000-0x307f mem 0x40010000-0x40010fff at device 18.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 orm0: