From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 13:55:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B3F16A41F; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:55:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FDD43D46; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:55:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.171] (dhcp-171-171.centtech.com [10.177.171.171]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j79DtrM1083741; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:55:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42F8B5FE.2010507@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:56:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <42EFD785.5000409@centtech.com> <200508021720.45054.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <42F3713D.80509@centtech.com> <200508051309.31730.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200508051309.31730.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pending issues 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, 09 Aug 2005 13:55:55 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 05 August 2005 10:01 am, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>John Baldwin wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday 02 August 2005 04:57 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: >>> >>>>John Baldwin wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Tuesday 02 August 2005 04:28 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Ok, here's a small list of issues pending that I can see on -current >>>>>>(and I saw these on 6- branch too before 7.0). >>>>>> >>>>>>- Time ticks along correctly, but anything using an interval will be 2x >>>>>>off. For instance - ping will only send a ping every 2 seconds instead >>>>>>of every second. systat -vmstat 1 refreshes every 2 seconds, etc. >>>>>>Disabling APIC 'fixes' it. >>>>> >>>>>Are you using the i8254 timecounter or some other timecounter? >>>> >>>>kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0) >>>>dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast >>>> >>>>Which is the default (I'm not forcing anything anywhere). I believe at >>>>one time I tried i8254, but it made no difference. I can try it again >>>>if you think it's a worthy experiment. >>> >>>I would try both i8254 and TSC and see if it makes a difference. >> >>Can I do this via sysctl, or do I need to rebuild my kernel? > > > sysctl. Just write the name of the new one to kern.timecounter.hardware > I've done that, with no effect. I've tried this same hard drive in a different laptop, and it works ok, so it's something with the way it detects the hardware I suppose. The laptops are very different. Both are using ACPI-fast. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------