From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 27 14:00:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E08916A404 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6607113C4A5 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:00:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1RE0WCu036397 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <45E43984.4020809@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070204) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2663/Tue Feb 27 05:19:30 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Subject: too short/too long (sys/kern_tc.c) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:00:33 -0000 When I boot a -CURRENT box with boot verbose enabled inside qemu, I see one of these messages about every second: 15.f68c5ee76faebe10 too short 16.0f822e13092c5580 too long I can obviously whack the printf's, but what's the 'right way' to fix this? Set HZ to something? Pick a different timer? kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 2 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 80036 kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 29057 kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 109 kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 488 kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 1708 kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 11 kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1719 kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 687 kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0 kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 3734 kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 7769 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 809045640 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 1995115260 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: 800 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Fri Feb 23 09:28:20 CST 2007 i386 Eric