Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:15:24 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ entry on calcru could use updated Message-ID: <20040928131524.0f7557fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040812093843.30d57ad7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040812093843.30d57ad7.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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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 <wmoran@potentialtech.com> 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 This FAQ entry is woefully out of date: 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
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