From owner-freebsd-security Sun Aug 22 18:44:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E9A14FEC for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:44:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3]) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11IhVK-0009zG-00; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:58:26 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11IhVJ-00008G-00; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:58:25 +0100 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:58:24 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bruce Evans Cc: gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Securelevel 3 ant setting time Message-ID: <19990823005824.A464@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199908220738.RAA28514@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199908220738.RAA28514@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Evans wrote: > Change the frequency of active timecounter to closer to its actual > frequency using `sysctl -w ...'. The hardware timecounters and their > frequencies can be found using `sysctl -a | grep _freq'. The currently > active timecounter can be found and changed in -current only using > `sysctl [-w] kern.timecounter.hardware'. Thanks for the info. After adjusting that, my clock now gained just 16ms in 70 minutes. Quite an improvement over 1s in one hour, but I'll continue to tweak it. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message