From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 24 14:54:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA05573 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05567 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10129; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:54:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Yaning Wang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: calcru: ? In-Reply-To: <34A0AE09.7233@shell.dave-world.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Yaning Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD(2.2.1) into my old PC (pentium 60). > Every thing seems fine, except from time to time the following > message poped out to the console: > > calcru: negative time: -(some number) usec > > It does not seem to have any other negative impact to the usage > of FreeBSD. > Can anyone tell me what the message means, what is the cause ? I think the last explanation for this is one of the following: 1. Your system clock isn't consistent. 2. Your system is blocking interrupts for excessive periods of time. It's harmless, if annoying. Check the mail archives, particularly on -hackers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major