From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 24 12:48:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322FE151D0 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17359; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:47:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199909241947.PAA17359@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: rtc? Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Kenneth Culver writes: > > >I reinstalled -current today, and for some reason there is an extra device > >generating interrupts. When I do a systat -vm 1 I find that there is a > >device called rtc at irq8 generating 128 interrupts. What is it? I didn't > >configure it, and it wasn't there before. > > It has always been there, it is the RTC clock or "softclock" which is ^^^^^^^^^ You meant statclock, right? > used to tally up the user/system times for processes and a few similar > statistics jobs. > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message