> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:56:42 -0500 > From: Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:51:09PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:14:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Has anyone ever seen this? My clock is running double time, that is, > > > each second it advances two seconds. Needless to say, ntpd can't sync > > > up with any servers. > > > > You almost certainly have a motherboard with bad ACPI (probably > > for with a K6 processor). Try adding: > > > > kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC > > The correct line to add to /etc/sysctl.conf is: > > kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC
Can someone explain why TSC is preferred to i8254 (or why not)? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
