cpu-timer rate

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:49:10 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
> kama, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different
> > clocks. But that does not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000
> > when I have set the hz to 1000.
> 
> Because the rate is always twice hz.

While I will concede that I have no explanation, but on all of my systems
rate = HZ +/-1. I have never seen a case where rate/2 = HZ.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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