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Date:      Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:25:54 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
To:        "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Cc:        bobo1008@mailtest1.engnet.ufl.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6-RELEASE, calcru, FAQs and kern.timercounter.method
Message-ID:  <54db43990512020725q1b464241ob84591f4673a4837@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200512021501.jB2F1Jo08623@akiva.homer.att.com>
References:  <200512021501.jB2F1Jo08623@akiva.homer.att.com>

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On 12/2/05, J. W. Ballantine <jwb@homer.att.com> wrote:
>
> I've been getting the calcru: negative time message.  After
> search the site I found the FAQ (5.18) that says to set this variable
> sysctl kern.timecounter.method=3D1.
>
> When I do that, I get sysctl: unknown old 'kern.timercounter.method'.
>
> What is the fix/search term for 6-release??
>

sysctl -a | grep timecounter

should reveal the sysctl to use.  In 5.4, kern.timecounter.hardware
sounds like what you want,
and (if I understand it correctly) the values you can try setting it
to are given by kern.timecounter.choice.

- Bob



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