this Puny Pentium2 suddenly became 45% slower!

[Paul Seniura]

Hi y'all,

Last week this Puny Pentium2 measured correctly at
around 448MHz.  Today's kernel+modules show it as
about 202MHz.  Snipped from today's dmesg:

[...]
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Thu May  6 10:06:55 CDT 2004
    root at techpc04.okladot.state.ok.us:/usr/obj/src/sys/IBM300SY_4BSD_Os
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel._IBM300SY_4BSD_Os/kernel" at 0xc08bc000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/modules/apm.ko" at 0xc08bc208.
Calibrating clock(s) ... i8254 clock: 2634973 Hz
2634973 Hz differs from default of 1193182 Hz by more than 1%
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Calibrating TSC clock ... TSC clock: 201960124 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (201.96-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x652  Stepping = 2
  Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory  = 402653184 (384 MB)
[...]
TSC timecounter disabled: APM enabled.
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 201960124 Hz quality -1000
[...]

I know -Current is currently messin' with the timers. 
But this ain't near right as it stands with the latest
CTM deltas.  ;)  It is causing premature timeouts when
waiting for some background tasks before bringing up the
ttyv's.  The snip below only shows on the console (not in
dmesg or messages etc.):

[...]
Starting syslogd.
May  6 11:33:57 techpc04 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel._IBM300SY_4BSD_Os/kernel
syslogd: timed out waiting for child
Setting date via ntp.
 6 May 11:34:11 ntpdate[387]: step time server 192.149.244.21 offset -0.480758 sec
Starting rpcbind.
[...]

Not sure if this is going to affect other timers (main
use is for development; I don't run much other stuff).

(BTW we _hafta_ use APM; the latest ACPI changes haven't
fixed IBM Crystal Sound[tm] yet; I'll do-up another post
on that if needed, already sent bios dumps to acpi-jp@
quite some weeks ago.)

Anything I can do to help...


  --  thx, Paul Seniura.