do you use a shell script to run it? if so, you should be able to use
"export" to set "RDTSC_FREQUENCY" to that number
if you have shell access, go ahead and type "man export" to get the man page
(I don't know all the stuff of the top of my head)

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Nathan D. <nathan...@cox.net> wrote:

> When starting a server, a benchmark runs each time to determine the
> system clock frequency. I have attempted to disable this by adding
> "-RDTSC_FREQUENCY 2659.000000" to the command line but this did not
> work. I've tried various other command line options but none worked.
> What is the correct way to set this permanently? I assume I'd want to
> set this to the actual system clock rather than just disable it.
>
> Here is the actual message given when starting a server:
>
> /Running a benchmark to measure system clock frequency...
> Finished RDTSC test. To prevent the startup delay from this benchmark,
> set the environment variable RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 2659.000000 on this
> system. This value is dependent upon the CPU clock speed and
> architecture and should be determined separately for each server. The
> use of this mechanism for timing can be disabled by setting
> RDTSC_FREQUENCY to 'disabled'./
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Nate
>
>
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