From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 14:54: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3ED37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA5343E72 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7SLs3An076193; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:54:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7SLs3wW076190; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:54:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: stable@freebsd.org, aSe@SysFail.com Subject: Re: microuptime() went backwards References: <200208271122.16665.jsoule@webcrossing.com> <20020828014459.A61483@iclub.nsu.ru> <20020827220521.GA21985@bsdunix.ch> <001301c24e26$5e21ea80$6501a8c0@bob> <44ofbmzy74.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <002601c24ece$0bb9a320$6501a8c0@bob> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Aug 2002 17:54:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <002601c24ece$0bb9a320$6501a8c0@bob> Message-ID: <44fzwyir9g.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "aSe" writes: > I can't change to TSC i just get errors and actually i'm running a generic > kernel. I'm prolly going to attempt to mod it and remove some stuff i don't > need and mabey that'll sort this problem out. but, i don't know.. Not likely. > > Check your devices to see if something is generating a lot of > > interrupts (a printer port, perhaps?). > > This is going to sound like a stupid question but, is there an easy way to > check this in bsd? 'systat -vmstat' > Thanx for the help.. Oh, there are plenty of other things still to check. Are you sure that setting kern.timecounter.method actually "took"? Check the manual page for your mouse driver, and see if it has any flags that might be relevant. Try changing your printer from interrupt to polled mode. And probably a few more I haven't thought of... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message