SV: CPU Clock Freq

From: Johan Lindström (johan.jl_at_home.se)
Date: 03/25/04

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    To: "'jason'" <jason@ec.rr.com>, "'Nikolas Britton'" <freebsd@nbritton.org>
    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:27:05 +0100
    
    

    Nikolas, try the snapshot function of VMWare of you don’t want to see the
    cool startup messages.

    -- Johan

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    > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] För jason
    > Skickat: den 25 mars 2004 07:41
    > Till: Nikolas Britton
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    > Ämne: Re: CPU Clock Freq
    >
    > Nikolas Britton wrote:
    >
    > > Can anyone explain why the clock is off by 17Mhz? This is
    > non critical
    > > btw I was just playing with the diff command an wasn't expecting to
    > > see this, the system is FreeBSD 5.2.1 running as a guest OS
    > in VMWare
    > > (Win2k host).....my guess is its just vmware playing tricks
    > on freebsd...
    > >
    > > #diff dmesg.today dmesg.yesterday
    > > 8c8
    > > < CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz (1733.85-MHz 686-class CPU)
    > > ---
    > > > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz (1716.78-MHz 686-class CPU)
    > > 79c79
    > > < Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1733846104 Hz quality 800
    > > ---
    > > > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1716778304 Hz quality 800
    > > 85a86,91
    > > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
    > > > WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
    > > > /tmp: mount pending error: blocks 4 files 3
    > > > WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
    > > > WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
    > > > cd9660: RockRidge Extension
    > >
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    > If no else will take this one, because of percent error. The clock
    > generator make a reference clock much lower that you cpu.
    > The cpu uses
    > multipliers of buses that are multiplies of this reference clock. If
    > the quartz crystal is off by 1%, then multiply by 10, 100, or
    > 10,000 you
    > can get 17 or more mhz off. Also the temp of the crystal
    > plays a role
    > in the frequency at which it vibrates. So a cold bootup vs a warm
    > reboot will cause variance. I am going from memory so this
    > might not be
    > perfect info. Opps, I did not see the vmware part. Well this info
    > should still apply. With a good motherboard monitor program
    > you should
    > see the cpu fluxuation a little too. By the way are you
    > shutting down
    > freebsd properly?
    >
    > Jason
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