How to adjust clock frequency in FreeBSD 10.1 ?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 12:50:21 UTC 2015


On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas at pobox.com> wrote:

> When I try to change the frequency with (e.g.)
>     sysctl kern.timecounter.tc.timebase.frequency=36000000
>
> I get
>     sysctl: oid ‘kern.timecounter.tc.timebase.frequency' is read only
>

Yeah, pretty clear that sysctl isn't going to help you in any way in "man 4
timecounters"

Is there some other way to set the frequency?
>

Sure, but I thought keeping accurate time was the goal?  If so, sharing the
output from the first command I gave you is a good start.


-- 
Adam


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