From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 21:27:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B543416A421 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:27:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ed@edslocomb.com) Received: from mail.edslocomb.net (dsl231-050-180.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.50.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 390FE43D7C for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:27:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ed@edslocomb.com) Received: (qmail 1363 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2005 20:51:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO robotslave) (216.231.50.17) by dsl231-050-180.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 20:51:16 -0000 Message-ID: <007201c5eaf4$8be7ef00$1132e7d8@robotslave> From: "Ed" To: Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:27:28 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Kernel clock for 6-STABLE runs at 1/2 speed in VMware 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:27:55 -0000 I am having the same problem as this fellow: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/11/problems-with-freebsd-6.html In addition to trying the (rather many) solutions suggested in the link = (in particular, setting kern.hz=3D100 does *not* fix this problem), I = have tried enabling/disabling acpi, to no avail. Again, FreeBSD's clock appears to be running at precisely *half* the = rate of the host OS (WinXP Pro, in my case).