From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 19:45:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389637BBBA for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11835; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:14:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:14:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Menard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microuptime() and vinum Message-ID: <20000811121457.H66881@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200008101931.AAG78989@bucket.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008101931.AAG78989@bucket.cisco.com>; from kmenard@cisco.com on Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:31:26PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 10 August 2000 at 15:31:26 -0400, Kevin Menard wrote: > Hi, > > When I go to start or init a plex or subdisk in vinum, my screen quickly fills > up with a message to the extent of "/kernel microuptime() coutning backwards > 'misc. #' 'misc.#'". > > I just want to know if: a) this is normal and nothing to worry about, No. > and b) if not, what would cause such a message to occur? It's probably due to a bug in the timekeeping which seems to hit certain motherboards, notably AMD Athlons. It doesn't have anything to do with Vinum beyond the fact that Vinum makes the system work, and these are the circumstances under which the problem occurs. You should give more details. I'm currently chasing exactly this problem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message