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From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, joes@seaport.net
Subject: Re: Interesting behaviour from sysctl(kern.boottime)
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> I've written myself a utility that polls the boot time (okay, I stole
> that part from w(1)) and sends a message to my pager so that I know
> that everything is hunky-dory....
> 
> [ kernel's notion of boot time is changing ]

How fast are you moving relative to the machine at the time you
get these pages?  It sounds to me as though relativity could be
a factor here.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.