From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 27 16:10:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120F016A402 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:10:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09B713C441 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1RGAP45059813; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:10:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <45E457F5.8050709@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:10:29 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070204) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Etienne Robillard References: <564131.4881.qm@web55602.mail.re4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <564131.4881.qm@web55602.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2664/Tue Feb 27 07:11:46 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too short/too long (sys/kern_tc.c) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:10:27 -0000 On 02/27/07 08:25, Etienne Robillard wrote: > Had this problem for a while.. It seems > to have disappear when booting with acpi enabled?? Oh - jsut realized it wasn't loaded (etherbooting doesn't load the modules, and I've been spoiled by having it autoload). Adding to my kernel now. > Dunno what may cause your bug, however I still gets > some of this: > > calcru: runtime went backwards from 37004444177421276 > usec to 18502193351497934 usec for pid 81026 (zsh) > > FreeBSD flick 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #13: Mon > Jan 29 14:05:04 EST 2007 > root@flick:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CURRENT i386 > > > Are both bugs described correlated? I don't know for sure. Seems that slamming the CPU to 100% busy makes the messages occur much less. Yikes! Look at this: # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 8299985 116 irq1: atkbd0 67 0 irq4: sio0 5325 0 irq8: rtc 1065804 14 irq11: re0 73060 1 irq14: ata0 15 0 irq15: ata1 58 0 Total 9444314 132 Maybe acpi will help that too. Eric > > TIA, > Etienne > > > --- Eric Anderson wrote: > >> When I boot a -CURRENT box with boot verbose enabled >> inside qemu, I see >> one of these messages about every second: >> >> 15.f68c5ee76faebe10 too short >> 16.0f822e13092c5580 too long >> >> I can obviously whack the printf's, but what's the >> 'right way' to fix >> this? Set HZ to something? Pick a different timer? >> >> kern.timecounter.tick: 1 >> kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) >> dummy(-1000000) >> kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC >> kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 2 >> kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 80036 >> kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0 >> kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0 >> kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 29057 >> kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 109 >> kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 488 >> kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 1708 >> kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 11 >> kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1719 >> kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 687 >> kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0 >> kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 3734 >> kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 >> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 4294967295 >> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 7769 >> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 >> kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0 >> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295 >> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 809045640 >> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 1995115260 >> kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: 800 >> kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 >> >> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Fri Feb >> 23 09:28:20 CST >> 2007 i386 >> >> Eric >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > ---- > Etienne Robillard > 7680 de jouvence, La Plaine > J7M-2K9, Québec > Telephone: 450-478-5026 > Yahoo Messenger ID: granted14 > Skype ID: incidah > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com