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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:34:36 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rtc? 
Message-ID:  <5637.938201676@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:27:04 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241525420.28376-100000@culverk.student.umd.edu> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909241525420.28376-100000@culverk.student.umd.edu>, 
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
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!


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