Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Ed
: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:17 PM 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 spake thus: I appreciate that you took time to answer about the different clocks. But that does

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
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

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Ed
from 5.x. - Original Message - From: Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:22 AM Subject: Re: cpu-timer rate On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 03:51:47 -0800, Ed wrote: I certainly do not have a full

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Brooks Davis
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 misunderstand

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Ed
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Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
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 is fine.

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 in

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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, profhz = 666,

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 when I

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread kama
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 1999

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
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.

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
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 that does not

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
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 never seen

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
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. While I will

cpu-timer rate

2005-12-02 Thread kama
Hi, I am just wondering why the cpu-timer is doubled from what I set in kern.hz? # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 4 0 irq6: fdc087 0 irq13: npx01

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
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 2060