Subject: Re: key debounce changed (under load) recently?
To: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/18/2006 07:18:09
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:43:25 +0200
Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org> wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:28:11 +1000, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>current as of yesterday, on an IBM X31. I'm getting a LOT of
> >>double-press effects with ctrl->arrow and <tab> and with other keys.
> >>
> >>anyone else seeing this?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >Is this xorg or XFree86?
> >
> >I'd wonder about the timecounter stuff, though -- with an earlier
> >version of it, key repeat was sensitive to system load and hence
> >clock frequency, due to estd. 
> >
> >  
> >
> You may have a point there. Goerge does sysctl
> kern.timecounter.hardware list TSC as selected timecounter ?

# !sys
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
kern.timecounter.hardware = i8254
#

> 
> >		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> >
> >  
> >
> Frank
>