From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 10 16:59:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out.visi.com (kauket.visi.com [209.98.98.22]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB564534 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from isis.visi.com (isis.visi.com [209.98.98.8]) by mail-out.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEA63B7E; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:54:02 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sdk@localhost) by isis.visi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17641; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:54:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:54:02 -0600 From: Stephen To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Stephen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange ps results Message-ID: <20000210185402.A17566@visi.com> References: <20000209124448.A25897@visi.com> <20000210165903.C13143@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <20000210165903.C13143@hades.hell.gr>; from Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 04:59:04PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- sdk@yuck.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message