From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 22 13: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332B037B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 52C9E1360E; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:00:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:00:06 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Patrick Hartling Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System clock out of control Message-ID: <20001022160006.A86218@peitho.fxp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Faulhaber , Patrick Hartling , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20001022161753.65DAD5D5A@tomservo.vrac.iastate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001022161753.65DAD5D5A@tomservo.vrac.iastate.edu>; from patrick@137.org on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:17:53AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:17:53AM -0500, Patrick Hartling wrote: > Last weekend, I installed FreeBSD 4.1.1 on a machine loaned to me by a > friend. It's got a Cyrix MediaGX in it which is something I've not dealt > with before. After getting 4.1.1 installed, I promptly cvsup'd the > 4-STABLE sources for October 14, rebuilt and installed a custom kernel. > Since doing that, the system clock has been ticking off about 10 seconds > for each real second which is certainly undesirable. The GENERIC kernel > for 4.1.1 and October 14 work just fine, however. I've been making > custom kernels since 2.1.5, and I have never seen anything like this before. > This machine was replacing one that was already running 4-STABLE from late > August, and I based the custom kernel for this replacement machine on the > older one. > *snip* > FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #0: Sun Oct 22 03:19:44 CDT 2000 > root@gypsy.vrac.iastate.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Cyrix GXm (19.73-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x540 DIR=0x6246 Stepping=6 Revision=2 I don't know what is causing it, but I bet your time problems have to do with FreeBSD seeing a processor speed of 19.73-MHz. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message