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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: whups, I lied 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110021823170.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110030024.f930Okt03497@mass.dis.org>

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I've been seeing these too on the Inspiron 7500..

-current from about 1 week ago.

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]
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