Subject: Re: Significant slowdown of clock
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/16/1996 06:56:20
I said earlier this week, but pain was in pain and just sent this last
night, apparently:
> > Anyway, seems like the clock is running at 50-70% of normal speed...
> Hmm...  This is a side-effect of having a delay() function that actually
> delays.  I haven't noticed the delay because I'm updating my clock from
> a time server and don't watch the logs regularly.  If anyone would like
> to fix it, please do.  I won't have a chance to look at it this week.

Just in case the odd timing here causes any confusion, I was wrong
about this--it turned out that an option in the kernel had gotten
reset (when the Makefiles were cleaned up) to the default of HZ=100
instead of the HZ=60 that we need on the mac68k port.

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
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