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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
To: zera holladay <zera_holladay@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Timecounters tick every 10.0 msec
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Quoting zera holladay <zera_holladay@yahoo.com>:

> While my kernel modules are loading I get a message,
> "Timecounters tick every 10.0 msec."  There's nothing
> wrong with my computer, I was just wondering what
> caused this message.  I have not been successful
> locating any information on this so I figured I would
> ask some kind hearted individual(s).  I am running
> FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s301 (laptop).
>
Nothing really "caused" it. It's a totally normal bootup message. It's just FYI.
You can actually make that number smaller by using HZ=500 or HZ=1000 in your
kernel config (for 5 ms and 1 ms respectively).

Ken