From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 10 08:32:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25235 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25159 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.0/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id RAA04900; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:27:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.org (8.8.8/8.8.5/pb-19970302) id RAA29951; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:27:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980610172720.A22774@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:27:20 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: Eivind Eklund , John Birrell , Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: rb@gid.co.uk, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spurious SIGXCPU References: <24311.897471953@critter.freebsd.dk> <199806100954.TAA14304@cimlogic.com.au> <19980610171655.37531@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: <19980610171655.37531@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:16:55PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message