Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:46:38 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" Message-ID: <4.1.19981202153837.021c67b0@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19670.912542042@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:09:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812011106101.3658-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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At 08:54 PM 12/1/98 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812011106101.3658-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>, 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
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