Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:27:20 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: rb@gid.co.uk, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spurious SIGXCPU Message-ID: <19980610172720.A22774@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> In-Reply-To: <19980610171655.37531@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:16:55PM %2B0200 References: <24311.897471953@critter.freebsd.dk> <199806100954.TAA14304@cimlogic.com.au> <19980610171655.37531@follo.net>
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On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:16:55PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> Hourly ntpdate's? I'd suspect that more than xntpd/timed, which (at
> least xntpd) use adjtime(), which cannot create negative times.
Xntpd can make negative time steps, when it feels like it's too
much out of sync. For example, when you're on a dialup connection
(which is my case).
Apparently that was the culprit in my case. Stopping xntpd allowed
me to make two make worlds in a row, and counting.
--
Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org
{Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher
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