In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: >On 24-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: >> It's a long shot, but what about setting kern.timecounter.hardware to >> i8254. It appears your ACPI timer is bad. The reason why I suggest this >> is that it seems like interrupts are being lost. > >I put kern.timecounter.hardware="i8254" into /boot/loader.conf, but >it didn't make any difference. Are you sure it even works from >loader.conf? From the sources it looks like this is a sysctl rather >than a tunable. I could change it to a tunable, though, if you >think it's worthwhile.
It would be rather complicated to make it a tunable. Far easier to go into the ACPI timecounter and just give it a negative quality, that will disable it. I'm not sure why Nate think this will change anything with respect to interrupts, but I pressume he knows what he's talking about. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
