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Subject: Re: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware.
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote on 10 May 2007 16:51:
> I also run on a very low kern.hz (50), this may or may not make a big 
> difference.

Ivan,

many thanks for this advice! It was the best I got regarding this topic. I tried nearly any 
combination of timecounters before and had no luck. With this setting a FreBSD-6.2 seems 
to running much better on a GSX server.

My current setup:
# cat /boot/loader.conf
kern.hz="50"
if_le_load="YES"

# cat /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254

Regards,
   Frank
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