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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:54:02 -0600
From:      Stephen <sdk@yuck.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Stephen <sdk@yuck.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange ps results
Message-ID:  <20000210185402.A17566@visi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000210165903.C13143@hades.hell.gr>; from Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 04:59:04PM %2B0200
References:  <20000209124448.A25897@visi.com> <20000210165903.C13143@hades.hell.gr>

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 04:59:04PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:44:48PM -0600, Stephen wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting strange ps results on a Toshiba Tecra laptop running 3.4-R
> > (kernel includes apm, card0/pcic0, and ep0 support).  The 'time' column is
> > wrong:
> > 
> > slug# ps -auxww
> > 
> > USER     PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> > sdk      448  0.0  1.6  1496  980  v0  S    12:20AM -2341053:-12.54 asclock -12 -shape
> > sdk      452  0.1  1.7  1576 1072  v0  S    12:20AM -2341083:-37.91 wmnet -i ep0
> 
> I don't know if that *is* the problem, but I would guess a mismatch with
> your kernel and "world" could be the cause.  What version of kernel are
> you running, and when did you last "make world" ?
> 

Thanks for the reply.

I believe I fixed the problem.  It is related to the "calcru: negative
time" error message, and started appearing after I enabled apm in the
kernel.  The fix that appears to have worked is to run:

sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1

at boot up per the FAQ "technical" section.

sk

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sdk@yuck.net



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