i386/10229: system time goes slow

[Dan Dexter]

The following reply was made to PR i386/10229; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dan Dexter <dan at venux.net>
To: "'freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/10229: system time goes slow
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:42:34 -0400

 Confirmed problem exists again as of version 4.8.  I could not find
 information at what release it appeared again, or what was done the last
 time to fix it (other than installing a P90).  This causes many issues,
 including slow package installs and various firewall and logging issues.
 
 # uname -a
 FreeBSD dex.dexters.org 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Sat Jul 19
 01:24:14 EDT 2003     root at dex.dexters.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/DEX  i386
 
 
 # dmesg | head
 Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
 Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Sat Jul 19 01:24:14 EDT 2003
     root at dex.dexters.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/DEX
 Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
 Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 99654982 Hz
 CPU: AMD K5 model 0 (99.65-MHz 586-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x501  Stepping = 1
   Features=0x3bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC>