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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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