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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!vtc.tacom.army.mil!agis!gatech!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!Materna.DE!root From: Juergen.Schuck@Materna.DE (Juergen Schuck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: system clock "ticks" five times slower than it should Date: 1 Jun 1995 15:42:06 GMT Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3qkn4e$k0t@peanuts.Materna.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: tuennes.materna.de Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 I´m running FreeBSD 2.0R on a 386DX/20Mhz. Everything concerned with "time" is almost exactly five times slower than it should. "sleep 2" sleeps 10 seconds, "time sleep 10" says "sleep" slept for two seconds. During boot the system waits about 80 seconds for scsi devices to settle (instead of 15). I browsed through the kernel sources without success. There is a TIMER_FREQ constant in i386/isa/clock.c where the comment says the value is what the X-tal is. There is no X-tal with that frequency in my machine. Near the timer circuit there is a X-tal with a value of approx. TIMER_FREQ/8 seeming to be too small. Thanks in advance for anny ideas, Juergen.