From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 21 02:53:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10461 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d5.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10453 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05733; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:41:46 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808210241.CAA05733@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Brian Somers , Brian Feldman , Terry Lambert , bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com Subject: Re: 13 months of user time? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 07:37:30 +0200." <294.903677850@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:41:45 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >[...] the machine I was having problems with was > >running apm, so it used the i8254 timecounter rather than the tsc > >counter. > > Ahh... I bet that is it: APM sucks. > > Try to disable APM and see if you can reproduce it, I'll bet you > my collection of genuine 11 row punched cards that you can't. We've already had a respondent indicate that they are seeing the symptoms on non-APM systems. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message