Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:25:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speeding up time... Message-ID: <199910040625.HAA00521@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:12:26 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909300110290.7508-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
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> I would like to play around with some y2k testing.
>
> While setting dates and such works, I'd really like to
> be able to disable xntpd, and have time move faster. So
> I could set the date to 12/28/99 or somesuch, and
> have time run at 4:1 or 10:1, or something that lets
> me run through a few days of operation in a few hours...
>
>
> Is there an obviously trivial way to do this?
I think you can get away with simply tweaking machdep.i8254_freq (if
you're using that counter that is).
--
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