low HZ value causes "Time Warp Bug" (re: this Puny Pentium2 suddenly became 45% slower!)

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Fri, 7 May 2004 07:06, Paul Seniura wrote:
> It seems this bug happens when the HZ value goes below 16
> (either by compiling 'options HZ=' in kernel or setting
> sysctl 'kern.hz=' in /boot/loader.conf).  The computed
> 'ticks' value becomes too large for 2-byte int producing
> crazy overflowed numbers elsewhere.

16 is pretty low..
Then again it would be nice if it warned you or something similar when you 
tried it :)

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