From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 17:36:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB24837B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8547443E75 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9H0aap00766; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:06:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Hartmann, O." , Andy Knapp Subject: Re: microuptime() went backwards, FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:55:12 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: "'Tom Snell'" , References: <20021015204904.L77350-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <20021015204904.L77350-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210161655.12179.bastill@sa.apana.org.au> 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 On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:20, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Andy Knapp wrote: > > No, on our servers I disabled APM by default because it triggered trouble > in the past on several SMP machines. And why APM on every-time-up servers? > No, definitely no APM facilities in kernel or BIOS enabled! > > :>are there any references to apm in it? seems the default reference, > :>which says to disable it, doesn't work correctly... This is getting to be a FAQ. Disabled isn't the same as not present. APM must be not present in the kernel if microuptime backwards is to be avoided. ie recompile with the apm lines REMOVED ALTOGETHER in your config. I thought this problem was confined to Athlon CPUs on VIA chipset mobos - apparently not so. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message