Sunday, December 02, 2018

Re: 6.4-release tset(1) really slow, what have I missed?

On 2018-12-02 22:12, Adam Thompson wrote:

> I'm unsure if my test is valid, but I switched to i8254 (confirmed successful via sysctl), and tset(1) continues to pause for an unnaturally long time. But then I rebooted and re-tested the same sysctl vaules, and this time tset(1) took 1sec, as expected. WTF...
>
> Well, putting that into sysctl.conf seems to be a reasonable workaround for now. I also enabled timestepwarnings, and they are occurring, although I don't yet know how often.

I understand why I got inconsistent results... I had two different hosts
open in the two windows I was using. Thank goodness they were both just
personal systems!

I'll re-test tomorrow morning when I'm more awake!

-Adam

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