From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 5 1:31:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98E237B405; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 01:31:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA59VYV38625; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:31:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA59VX711545; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:31:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111050931.fA59VX711545@harmony.village.org> To: Jan.Stocker@t-online.de (Jan Stocker) Subject: Re: Clock Drift Cc: "Beech Rintoul" , "Dreamtime.net Inc." , current@FreeBSD.org, smp@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:53:17 +0100." <000001c165ce$ee1c8780$fe02010a@twoflower.liebende.de> References: <000001c165ce$ee1c8780$fe02010a@twoflower.liebende.de> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 02:31:33 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <000001c165ce$ee1c8780$fe02010a@twoflower.liebende.de> Jan Stocker writes: : That will mean, i cant shutdown my system with power-off, or not? : What does the power management has to do with the clock? That's a long and involved question. basically, to conserve power, the power management system messes with the system oscillators so things use less power. But your timebase that is derived from these oscillators is degraded. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message