From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 11:45:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28506 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28501 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00537; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:41:57 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809031141.LAA00537@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Simon Marlow cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: calcru: negative time... In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Sep 1998 10:25:50 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:41:57 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm having real trouble making world on my laptop (a Toshiba 460CDT) > due to this "calcru: negative time" thing. > > The murmurings were that it probably had something to do with APM, > which explains why it's only happening on my laptop. 'apmconf -d' had > no effect. > > This is fairly repeatable - some short time after starting a 'make > world' something will die, usually 'make'. I can help out with > diagnosing the problem if necessary. What would really help would be if you were to add some code to the [get]{micro|nano}time functions in kern/kern_clock.c to remember the last time they handed out, and panic or otherwise complain if they were about to hand out a time prior to the previous one. The problems *seem* to be related to time going backwards, but our fearless timekeeper refuses to speculate. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message