How to adjust clock frequency in FreeBSD 10.1 ?

Eduardo Morras emorrasg at yahoo.es
Sat Feb 14 13:53:23 UTC 2015


On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:50:14 -0600
Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > When I try to change the frequency with (e.g.)
> >     sysctl kern.timecounter.tc.timebase.frequency=36000000
> >
> > I get
> >     sysctl: oid ‘kern.timecounter.tc.timebase.frequency' is read
> > only
> >
> 
> Yeah, pretty clear that sysctl isn't going to help you in any way in
> "man 4 timecounters"
> 
> Is there some other way to set the frequency?
> >
> 
> Sure, but I thought keeping accurate time was the goal?  If so,
> sharing the output from the first command I gave you is a good start.

Perhaps using powerd? It can adjust the Hz of cpu.

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>


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