Date: 6 Feb 96 02:01:31 GMT From: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time travelling news server Message-ID: <peter.823572091@jhome.DIALix.COM> References: <199602021216.GAA15425@solaria.sol.net>
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jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) writes:
>Okay, I just had my "what the F***" experience of the week.
>I noticed some strangeness on my news server "news.sol.net". While
>examining it, I typed "date" and got
>hummin# date
>Sun Jan 15 02:51:14 CST 1928
>WHAT?????????
>I quickly compiled a printf("%ld\n", time(NULL)) and got:
>-1324220930
>Now, xntpdc was happily chugging along on the system. Matter of fact, when
>I killed it and did an "ntpdate ntp2.sol.net", it claimed a very small
>offset from ntp2.sol.net.... maybe a complete (or half, negative) wrap-around?
I saw this behavior on -current a month or so ago about when PHK was doing
the bcd stuff.. If I remember rightly, the spammed date got written into
my CMOS.
>It's been a week for problems with my news box. :-/
Are you running -current or -stable on it? My news box has been doing
wonderfully well under a new -current kernel (from Jan 11). It's currently
got an uptime of 24 days (which is a record for the -current FreeBSD
machines here). This machine used to crash every few days before that last
update. It's only a garden-variety hardware box though.. (486, ISA,
AHA1542CF) It's keeping up with it's load but has no spare disk bandwidth at
all - it's running at near 100% head seek saturation 24 hours a day and is
going to need an upgrade (more disk, more RAM) soon.
-Peter
>... Joe
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>Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net
>Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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