clock works slowly when I change CPU speed
Thorsten Greiner
thorsten.greiner at web.de
Fri Aug 15 13:51:25 PDT 2003
* Bob Fleck <bob at securesoftware.com> [2003-08-15 22:46]:
> So, what should be done to restore the proper behavior of the
> timekeeping on these systems?
$ dmesg | grep counter
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1595302164 Hz
$ sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
Fixes the problem for me. I suspect you should set this in
/etc/sysctl.conf to enable it permanently.
Regards
-Thorsten
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