From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 8:21:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13302.mail.yahoo.com (web13302.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B7F537B404 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:21:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020130162128.44514.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.174.9.99] by web13302.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:21:28 CET Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:21:28 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= Subject: Re: Microuptime() went backwards To: einbecker@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tobias Lange wrote: > > Hi, > > First of all I want to thank all the FreeBSD-folks out there for their > "beautiful" operating system - I switched from linux and I must say I never > regret it. > > But there's a small problem I run into once in a while: > > When my system is working hard (e.g. installing a port, browsing with Mozilla > in multiple windows), sometimes X starts to flicker and the time is going > pretty fast. If i switch to the shell, the text "microuptime() went > backwards", including different numerical arguments, scrolls down the screen. > Nothing helps but a restart. I already searched the ML and Google, but i > haven't found anything helpful yet. You got any ideas? Have you enable APM in your kernel? In the past there was trouble with microuptime(), APM and one of the x86 architecture processors (IIRC AMD ... but not for sure). Disable APM in your kernel config, build a new one and take a look if things get better. Hope that helps Marc __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Ihre E-Mail noch individueller? - http://domains.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message