From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 3 12:03:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15194 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15174 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00839; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Brian C. Grayson" cc: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" In-Reply-To: <19981203125900.A27570@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > In a NetBSD forum, I suggested using an exponential scheme for > printing the message: print it for the first, second, 4th, > 8th, 16th, ... 1048576th, ... occurrence. This is pretty much > bound to waste no more than 32 lines in the log file, but also > gives one an idea of how often it is occurring (compared to > simply printing once). I've been using such a scheme for a few > years in some of my own code, and find it invaluable! That's a cool idea. I'll have to remember that :) > BTW, on our system (built from 3.0-19981103-SNAP), we see > calcru problems, but sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1 prints: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method'. Do I just need to > upgrade to a newer kernel? The problem started when I tried to > run XF86_3DLabs, for a Fire GL Pro 1000 card, from XFree86-3.3.3. Yeah, you need to move up a month or so. It appears XFree86 excaserbates the problem, based on discussion in other forums. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message