Timecounters tick every 10.0 msec

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting zera holladay <zera_holladay at yahoo.com>:

> While my kernel modules are loading I get a message,
> "Timecounters tick every 10.0 msec."  There's nothing
> wrong with my computer, I was just wondering what
> caused this message.  I have not been successful
> locating any information on this so I figured I would
> ask some kind hearted individual(s).  I am running
> FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s301 (laptop).
>
Nothing really "caused" it. It's a totally normal bootup message. It's just FYI.
You can actually make that number smaller by using HZ=500 or HZ=1000 in your
kernel config (for 5 ms and 1 ms respectively).

Ken