clock works slowly when I change CPU speed

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Aug 16 01:25:37 PDT 2003


In message <20030816.120621.846933691.matoba at st.rim.or.jp>, MATOBA Hirozumi wri
tes:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:50:47 +0200 Thorsten Greiner wrote:
>| $ dmesg | grep counter
>| Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>| Timecounter "ACPI-fast"  frequency 3579545 Hz
>| Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 1595302164 Hz
>| $ sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
>| Fixes the problem for me. I suspect you should set this in
>| /etc/sysctl.conf to enable it permanently.
>
>Thank you for your advice. 

I've given timecounters "qualities" which should solve this problem.

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