On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 15:39:04 -0800, Ed wrote:
>With all due respect, "vmware plays fast and loose with the clocks" is not
>a satisfactory technical explanation.
Hi-jacking unrelated e-mail threads and top posting is not good
etiquette either.
>It is no doubt true that those of us who run FreeBSD
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:23:04PM -0800, Ed wrote:
> My apologies, I did not understand this specific meaning of "core team"
> when I wrote that.
>
> What term should I use in the future, when discussing problems of this
> nature? "FreeBSD kernel developers," or some such?
"FreeBSD developers"
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Cc: "Peter Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 4:03 PM
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:39:04PM -0800, Ed wrote:
>
> For these reasons, I believe your technically unsupported assertion that
> "This is nothing to do with the core team" should be shelved, pending
> actual investigation of the phenomenon.
Peter's assertion is entirely correct. You misunder
single-processor systems, and that
this is a change from 5.x.
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From: "Peter Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: cpu-timer rate
On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 0
On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 03:51:47 -0800, Ed wrote:
>I certainly do not have a full understanding of the interactions between
>the various FreeBSD software timers and i386 hardware clocks, but I do know
>this is not the first time we've seen a problem with the APIC/ACPI
>timers/clocks.
You have a tot
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Subject: Re: cpu-timer rate
On Mon, 2005-Dec-05 10:15:52 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
kama, and lo! it s
On Mon, 2005-Dec-05 10:15:52 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
>> kama, and lo! it spake thus:
>> >
>> > I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different
>> > clocks. But that does not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000
On Friday, 2 December 2005 at 14:32:58 +0100, kama wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am just wondering why the cpu-timer is doubled from what I set in
> kern.hz?
>
> # vmstat -i
> ...
> cpu0: timer 14314031 1999
>
> # sysctl -a | grep hz
> kern.clockrate: { hz = 1000, tick = 1000, pro
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:47:56 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:15:52AM -0800 I heard the voice of
> Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus:
> > > From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Because the rate is always twice hz.
> >
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:15:52AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Kevin Oberman, and lo! it spake thus:
> > From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Because the rate is always twice hz.
>
> While I will concede that I have no explanation, but on all of my
> systems rate = HZ +/-1. I have
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:49:10 -0600
> From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
> kama, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different
> > clocks. But
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:42:08AM +0100 I heard the voice of
kama, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different
> clocks. But that does not answer why vmstat -i shows a rate of 2000
> when I have set the hz to 1000.
Because the rate is always twice hz.
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-Dec-02 14:32:58 +0100, kama wrote:
> >I am just wondering why the cpu-timer is doubled from what I set in
> >kern.hz?
> >
> ># vmstat -i
> >interrupt total rate
> ...
> >cpu0: timer 14314031
On Fri, 2005-Dec-02 14:32:58 +0100, kama wrote:
>I am just wondering why the cpu-timer is doubled from what I set in
>kern.hz?
>
># vmstat -i
>interrupt total rate
...
>cpu0: timer 14314031 1999
>Total 14750922
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