Re: Kernel Variables Sanity Check

2008-12-24 Thread Jason C. Wells
Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: Hi Jason, and sorry to pop in, but now you got me guessing if I should follow your lead too ... This is what I get in here: [gonz...@inferna ~]% grep Time /var/run/dmesg.boot Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz qu

Re: Kernel Variables Sanity Check

2008-12-24 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 2:13:10 am Jason C. Wells wrote: > Based on someone elses historical message I tried changing the time > counter from TSC to i8254 > > # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > and after doing some manual calculations I tweaked > > # sysctl machdep.i8254_freq=118721

Kernel Variables Sanity Check

2008-12-23 Thread Jason C. Wells
Based on someone elses historical message I tried changing the time counter from TSC to i8254 # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 and after doing some manual calculations I tweaked # sysctl machdep.i8254_freq=1187216 # machdep.i8254_freq: 1193182 -> 1187216 Is doing this safe? I'm conce