On Wednesday 15 June 2011 03:27 pm, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > > The problem I noticed first is that it takes unusually long > > > until a key press is repeated. With the default eventtimer > > > (HPET) it seems to take about 4s, which can be slightly > > > improved by switching to i8254. > > > > > > The "error beep" seems to take longer than usual, too, > > > and the system "feels sluggish" in general. > > > > > > An effect that is easier to measure is that the system is > > > unable to properly keep the time. Again the problem is less > > > severe when using i8254 instead of HPET: > > > > [SNIP] > > > > First of all, please do not mix timecounter issues with > > eventtimer. They are not directly related. > > > > Can you please show me verbose boot messages *without* your > > patch? Does "sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=HPET" help > > *without* touching eventtimers? > > I have the same issue with my system (Atom N270). The effect that > I see is about 29 wall clock seconds are recorded as 1 system > second.
Can please you send me output from the following? sh -c 'count=10; while [ $count -gt 0 ]; do count=$((count - 1));\ sysctl kern.timecounter; sleep 1; done' > I had do something similar to the OP to make my system useable since > it doesn't seem possible to influence timecounter choice at boot > time. You can just add the following line in /etc/sysctl.conf for now: kern.timecounter.hardware=HPET Jung-uk Kim _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
