Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 05:56:21 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: calcru: negative time: Message-ID: <1215.828424581@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 04:24:37 %2B1000." <199604011824.EAA32194@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> >[deleted] > >> >calcru: negative time: -11929 usec > >> ... > >> This is caused by hardclock() interrupt latency. The problem is > >> ... > > >My i386 has really high numbers here. > > Highly negative numbers? They can't go more than 10000 usec negative > on i386's due to the causes that I know about. Generally in the ~5000 range (+/-3000) and occasionally >>10000. > >Could this be a spl<something() botch ? > > Probably a splhigh botch. It seems to be connected to fork/exec on my mach. How about ESDI disks, could they monopolize the cpu on slow systems ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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