cpu-timer rate

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 03:51:47 -0800, Ed wrote:
>I certainly do not have a full understanding of the interactions between 
>the various FreeBSD software timers and i386 hardware clocks, but I do know 
>this is not the first time we've seen a problem with the APIC/ACPI 
>timers/clocks.

You have a totally different problem.  In your case the system is not
keeping correct time - this is because VMware does not provide stable
clock interrupts - probably due to interactions between VMware and the
host OS.  In kama's case, the interrupt rate reported by vmstat -i
does not match the numbers reported by kern.clockrate.  There is no
indication that the system is not keeping correct time.

>Again, I'm no expert, but clock problems do keep cropping up here on 
>the -STABLE list, and the explanations for them to date have not been 
>consistent.

AFAIR, all the problems reported here have been related to VMware
clients.  And as someone stated "VMware plays fast and loose with
clocks".

>I'm sure I'm not the only end-user who would appreciate it if the core team 

This is nothing to do with the core team.

-- 
Peter Jeremy