From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 15:50:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22319 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA22309 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 29928 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1998 23:50:02 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 1998 23:50:02 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19981202153837.021c67b0@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:46:38 -0800 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Doug White From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19670.912542042@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:54 PM 12/1/98 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message , Doug W >hite writes: >>On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>> Q: My machine prints "calcru: negative time..." >> >>A thought on this. Could we create a sysctl that shuts this message up? >>I suspect some people are just going to have to live with it and they may >>actually want to read their system log. :) This is PC hardware; the >>likelihood of it being fixed in the near future is about zero, unless we >>have the ear of a large motherboard manufacturer or few. > >This is actually Very Bad News for a system, and running with it very >quickly becomes very very irritating. It is the same feeling as a >bad-ram system, processes die left and right. > >Generally it is a particular piece of hardware, or a driver not doing >what it needs to do about interrupts which is at fault. I agree with Doug that it would be nice to shut this off. I have an early MediaGX system which prints this message (but with times only four-digit times). I don't have any programs dying on me, and the only hardware I added to the machine was the RAM, a 540MB IDE HD, and a 3c905 (not B). I'd really like to be able to shut off the calcru message. Having a sysctl option for it, with a warning that calcru messages indicate something bad, would be a good compromise, right? --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message