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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 21:06:09 -0500
From: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
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Subject: Re: calcru: runtime went backwards
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On 12/1/05, J. W. Ballantine <jwb@homer.att.com> wrote:
>
> I running 6-RELEASE as a guest under vmware 5.5 and I'm having
> problems with the clock going backwards.  I'm getting the message (sample=
):
>
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 10542602 usec to 10542600 usec for pi=
d
> 13924
>  (vmware-guestd)
[etc.]
>
> Is this bsd or vmware related, and any way to fix it?
>

I don't have direct experience with this, but the reports I've seen
indicate that vmware has clock problems with both FreeBSD and Linux.=20
One suggestion is that in vmware, set

  host.useFastclock =3D "FALSE"

in the .vmx file.  Another suggestion  is that in FreeBSD 6.0 you can
try setting

  sysctl  kern.MUMBLE.timecounter=3DTSC

except I don't know what "MUMBLE" is in 6.0.

  sysctl -a | grep timecounter

should reveal it, though.  And if it is already "TSC", try "i8254",
I've seen both recommended.  There are probably other possibilities
(e.g. "ACPI-safe" seems to be the default these days) but as I said, I
have no direct experience with vmware.

It has also been recommended to set "options HZ=3D1000" in your kernel
configuration.

Hope that helps, and if I got any of that wrong, someone please correct me!

- Bob

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