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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)'
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On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:13, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Try using TSC or i8254:
> sysctl kern.MUMBLE.timecounter=3DTSC
>
> (developers@ removed from cc:)

Also, consider setting

	host.useFastclock =3D "FALSE"

in your server's .vmx file.

This makes all the difference for a Linux guest OS, along with ensuring=20
that the host OS kernel has HZ defined as high as possible (1000 on x86=20
Linux).

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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