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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:18:14 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: calcru / microuptime problem 
Message-ID:  <200003132018.MAA01252@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:30:49 EST." <200003131930.OAA80430@cs.rpi.edu> 

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> I have had these problems ever since upgrading to -current about a
> month ago.  The kernel very regularly spews out messages like:
> > Mar 13 14:23:39 gemini /kernel: calcru: negative time of -2663631 usec for pid 568 (sshd2)
> 
> or a message that "microuptime() went backwards'.  I have noticed that
> these messages usually coincide with moderate to heavy disk IO.
> I do not have the dmesg or kernel config here with me right now, but I
> believe I can provide most of the usefull information.  The system is an
> ASUS P2B-DS running ROM revision 1009.  It has 2 Pentium II - 400Mhz CPUs,
> and is running with 'device apm flags 0x20' to get the stat-clock (this was
> needed in FreeBSD-3.x, I have not yet tried without it.  I am also
> running vinum across 3 disks, one Ultra-2-wide SCSI, and 2 IDE (each on
> their own bus).  Furthermore I am running xntpd to keep my clock in sync.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Remove the flags on the apm device and update to at least the 1011 BIOS.

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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