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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:43:49 -0800
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: calcru 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990210184153.009d9b60@mail-r>
In-Reply-To: <199902110141.RAA01864@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:40:35 PST."             <4.1.19990210173901.00a67500@mail-r>

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At 05:41 PM 2/10/99 , Mike Smith wrote:
>> >calcru: negative time of -77208797 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
>> It means that you have funny
>> hardware (ISA cards?) and maybe also a driver that aggravates it.
>
>No, it means that our timecounter code is broken, and the author has 
>been unwilling/unable to fix it for > 6 months.
>
>(He also got roundly canned for his presentation of it at Usenix, BTW.)

Too bad about the presentation.

But that means my Cyrix MediaGX system isn't really broken! Yay!
(it runs well enough but after a while i get calcru: negative time of -5000
usec every day)

--Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com )
ICQ UIN: 692441 (  ludwigp@email.com  )

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