timecounter and Hz quality in kern RELENG_6

Michael Nottebrock lofi at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 7 08:25:00 PST 2005


On Monday, 7. November 2005 17:10, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Michael Schuh <michael.schuh at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > i be very surprised about the performance of RELENG_6.
>  > Congratulations to the entire Team for this very good work.
>  >
>  > Now i have 2 Machines installed with 6.0-RC1, and i have seen that on
>  > both machines the Hz is differntly with GENERIC-Kernel.
>
> "sysctl kern.clockrate" tells you the HZ value.
> In FreeBSD 6 the dafult is 1000, unless you change
> it via "options HZ=x" in your kernel configuration.

... or via the kern.hz loader tunable.

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