System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4

[Joe Nosay]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at nsu.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:28:12AM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote:
> > I'm curious on two things:
> > 1. Is ntpd running/set in /etc/rc.conf?
>
> No, it's off.  I guess if I had it running it won't let the clock to
> behave like that. :)
>
> > 2. Danfe, why aren't you running the kern.hz at 2000?
>
> Why should I?  Esp. that G4 is not exactly top performant by today's
> standards.  FreeBSD defaults work fine in most cases, so I don't touch
> them unless there is a reason.
>
> I found from building on a G3 400MHz, a G4 800MHz, and a G4 933MHz that
increasing the clock rate to that value improved performance and decreased
lag.
Try and see for yourself. Even 1500 works better than 1000. My opinion
based on observation.

> ./danfe
>