> Hi, > The following appeared in my daily security run output: > > curly.howse.no-ip.org kernel log messages: > > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 300683473 Hz > > I have a Celeron 300 CPU, if that matters. > > A quick Google for 'Timecounter "TSC" frequency' led me to > believe that I should change the hardware timecounter to i8254 with: > > sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > > I did that, rebooted, and ran sysctl -a again, only to see > that kern.timecounter.hardware had reverted to TSC. > > I have both i8254 and TSC showing in dmesg. > > Should I make the change permanent across reboots, and if so, how? > > BTW, are any of you getting the same messages from this list > over and over again? > I am, I wonder what's going on?
After re-reading man sysctl, I see I should be able to set any values I need in /etc/sysctl.conf I added kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254, saved, rebooted, no joy, still set to TSC. The handbook doesn't have anything specific. What's going on? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"