Re: MP NOACPI kernel

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:19:00 -0700 (MST)
Al - image hosting services <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I thought that I had this problem solved. I built a kernel with:
> options         MULTIPROCESSOR
> 
> and I uncommented:
> 
> options         APM_NO_IDLE
> options         MPBIOSoptions         MPBIOS
> 
> Then commented out all the ACPI stuff, but I left in:
> ioapic* at mainbus?
> 
> Then the kernel will build. Now, the clock is running way too fast. I
> mean if I run top, top refreshes every 2 seconds and it seems to have
> 15 to 30 seconds change in time for each refresh of top. It has been
> only running for a few hours and it thinks it has been up for 4 days.
> 

What is the output of

        sysctl kern.timecounter



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