time keeps on slipping... slipping...

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Oct-10 23:30:30 -0700, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
>> >kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.mask: 4294967295
>> >kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.counter: 2854866610
>> >kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.frequency: 10937740
>> >kern.timecounter.tc.TSC-low.quality: 1000
...
>Since I switch to HPET, it hasn't happened at all in the last 3 days..

That suggests that there's something peculiar about your TSC.  There
are a variety of possibilities...  Does your CPU support multiple
Cx states and are you using them ("sysctl dev.cpu | grep cx_")?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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