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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: whups, I lied 
Message-ID:  <20011002171721.C4030-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110030024.f930Okt03497@mass.dis.org>

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I dunno. It's an STL2 board with 2 1GHz processors and 1GB of memory.
It doesn't always happen. I'm running ntp.



On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote:

> > > yes, with acpi timer disabled this seems to have gone away
> >
> > Nope, even with the change Mike mentioned, I still get:
> >
> > microuptime() went backwards (50013.3990440 -> 50012.321555)
> > microuptime() went backwards (50013.3990440 -> 50012.406351)
>
> This looks really bad; like time is actually stepping forwards a second
> or so accidentally.
>
> One misread I'd put down to a glitch, but this looks like our idea of
> "now" goes forward too fast and then "real time" takes a while to catch
> up.
>
> --
> ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
> rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
> to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
> people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
>            V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E
>
>
>


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