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Subject: Re: RTC and clocks
From: seebs () plethora ! net (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2006-09-19 1:57:34
Message-ID: 200609190157.k8J1vYNS025893 () guild ! plethora ! net
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In message <4F2C572A-9DE4-41D8-B80E-94D6AD7EB5E0@invisible.ca>, "Jared D. McNei
ll" writes:
>Are you running estd (from pkgsrc)? Or, was the 35:60 from when you
>had booted running from battery maybe?
No estd.
The odd thing is that it would change over time. (Note that "35" is an
approximation; I saw everything from about 32 to 60.) It acted, in short,
exactly the way I'd expect an unreliable clock with a failing battery to act,
up to and including working better right after a reset, and then gradually
falling apart.
>In any case, you should use an alternate timer if you are using
>speedstep -- TSC is known not to handle changes in CPU speed
>properly. This can be done by, eg:
> # sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
>You probably want to use the ACPI timer for finer granularity, if
>possible.
Hmm. I may have speedstep disabled or something; certainly, it isn't getting
used while I'm plugged in.
I have never enabled ACPI on this system, because my experiences with ACPI
(admittedly, years back) were so consistently negative. Maybe I should try
that.
-s
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