From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 17:15:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5511A16A4CF for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:15:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE6843D39 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:15:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFA269A39 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:15:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:15:24 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040928131524.0f7557fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040812093843.30d57ad7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040812093843.30d57ad7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FAQ entry on calcru could use updated X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:15:26 -0000 I was cleaning out my inbox, and I saw that nobody every replied to this, and that nothing was ever done. Is everyone just too busy to look at this, or is there another reason? Bill Moran wrote: > > This FAQ entry is woefully out of date: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE > > The sysctl referenced doesn't even exist in newer versions of FreeBSD. > > I was going to write up a patch, when I found out that this entry: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#LAPTOP-CLOCK-SKEW > actually contains the fix that I've used whenever I get the calcru > problem on 5.x. > > I would suggest eliminating the answer in the calcru entry and merging > the two entries, as the solution is the same on 5.x > > However, I've never seen the problem on 4.x, so I don't know if the > technique of setting kern.timecounter.method=1 workes or not. > > Comments? Suggestions? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com