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It also mostly seems to be happening during boot probing- probably when my FC
kernel thread is running. That may be a clue.


On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

>
> 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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