From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 13 5:57: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from issv0170.isis.de (issv0170.isis.de [195.158.131.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 341C837B404 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28167 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Apr 2002 12:56:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO diana.ww) ([195.158.148.197]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.isis.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Apr 2002 12:56:58 -0000 Posted-and-Mailed: no Subject: Re: System time issue in Asus P2B-F From: Johann Frisch References: <1018432121.12087.19.camel@kahuna-ws.robhughes.com> User-Agent: Xnews/4.11.30 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Lines: 25 Message-Id: <20020413125700.341C837B404@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Apr 2002, you wrote: > I've run into a very strange issue on one of my boxes. The > system is a P2 333 on an Asus P2B-F running 4.5-STABLE and > cvsup'ed as of yesterday, though the problem has been > occurring for awhile now. What happens is that the system time > is incrementing at about double the real world rate. Booting > the system to the BIOS screen and using a stopwatch, I've > verified that the hardware clock is keeping accurate time, so > I don't think its the on-board clock chip. I've tried > recompiling the kernel with the various CLK_ options, neither > of which seemed to help. I also tried removing the HZ option > as well as changing it. What other option or device entries > should I be looking at? I'm at a dead-end, but need to find a > solution as this is my primary firewall/IDS system and this > issue is really borking things up in the logs. I've also tried > running ntpd, but still no help, as well as removing and > recreating the /etc/timezone file. Did you try syctl kern.timecounter.method (0 or 1) and kern.timecounter.hardware (i8254 or TSC)? I had this racing system time problem some time ago under FreeBSD 4.3 and it went away when I changed kern.timecounter.hardware from TSC to i8254. -- MfG, Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message