Re: [netbsd-5] machine losing time by the hour

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 9:53 Uhr -0700 23.03.2010, Paul Goyette wrote:
>> cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 8379MHz, id 0xf33
>> cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 8379MHz, id 0xf33
>
>Does that come in a quad-core model?  Wow - 8.4GHz

*g*

It's a hyperthreaded P4 on an entry-level server board of 2005 vintage.
Some part of the kernel is thinking too positive here.

I guess the TSC timer is used to time the cpu clock?

        hauke

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