From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 08:58:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BACDF2F for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:58:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE97D90 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1TvlIV-00013s-Rz; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:58:08 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: "Ronald Klop" Subject: Re: time issues and some more In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to "Ronald Klop" message dated "Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:56:06 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:58:07 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:58:11 -0000 > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:45:49 +0100, Daniel Braniss > wrote: > > > I resently upgraded a Dell PowerEdge R710, to 9.1-stable, we mainly use > > it as > > a backup to several zfs servers (doing send|receive) without major > > issues till > > the upgrade, it was running 8.2-stable. > > > > now, we see that sometime the time drifts, and today I noticed that it > > was > > hung, and once I got unto the ipmi console this is what i got: > > [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 3864, size: 12288 > > > > and things started moving again, > > > > in /var/log/messages: > > Jan 16 03:27:35 store-02 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: > > bufobj: > > 0, blkno: 3864, size: 12288 > > > > but the REAL time is 7hs ahead!, so time stood still ? > > and now, of course we get: > > Jan 16 03:54:19 store-02 ntpd[38163]: time correction of 25216 seconds > > exceeds > > sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. > > > > I will now reboot, and try a newer kernel and check, but any insight will > > be very helpful, > > > > thanks, > > danny > > Does BSD 9 choose another timer source than BSD 8? > Use sysctl to check these values at your system. > kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0) > kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC > > Or this ones. I always confuse these. > kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-fast(900) i8254(0) > dummy(-1000000) > kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low > under 8.3 it's kern.timecounte, so this is what I get: > sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) HPET(900) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.mask: 65535 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.counter: 52515 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.frequency: 1193182 kern.timecounter.tc.i8254.quality: 0 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.mask: 16777215 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.counter: 925448 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.frequency: 3579545 kern.timecounter.tc.ACPI-fast.quality: 1000 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.counter: 1472869277 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.frequency: 14318180 kern.timecounter.tc.HPET.quality: 900 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.mask: 4294967295 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.counter: 4125922088 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency: 2329838875 kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.quality: -100 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 kern.timecounter.invariant_tsc: 1 so I assume the choise is HPET, under 9.1: kern.eventtimer.timer: HPET so it seems to be the same. btw, this morning I see that it's behind more than 1 hour, and no signs of ntpd! the logs show: ... Jan 17 00:40:52 store-02 kernel: usb_dev_suspend_peer: Setting device remote wakeup failed Jan 17 01:05:46 store-02 ntpd[1845]: time correction of 7854 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. ... it seems to me that the 7854 seconds is exactly the time diff: date on this hosts says: Thu Jan 17 08:46:18 IST 2013 addig the 7854 sec is the current(almost) real date: Thu Jan 17 10:57:13 IST 2013 something is very fishy here. cheers, danny