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Date:      Wed, 9 Nov 2005 20:08:31 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@clue.co.za>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0 on VMWare 5.0: `calcru: negative runtime of -12728437 usec for pid 28 (irq17: lnc0)'
Message-ID:  <200511092008.36939@axl.clue.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <4371AF8C.4040706@root.org>
References:  <1551247422.20051109105345@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4371AF8C.4040706@root.org>

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On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:13, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Try using TSC or i8254:
> sysctl kern.MUMBLE.timecounter=TSC
>
> (developers@ removed from cc:)

Also, consider setting

	host.useFastclock = "FALSE"

in your server's .vmx file.

This makes all the difference for a Linux guest OS, along with ensuring 
that the host OS kernel has HZ defined as high as possible (1000 on x86 
Linux).

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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