From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 7 21:24:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4297137B424 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 21:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e884OXZ31155; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:54:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:54:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: John Baldwin , Steve Ames , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microuptime() went backwards Message-ID: <20000908135433.V83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000908123838.U83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:18:07AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 8 September 2000 at 0:18:07 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 22:49:30 -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: >>>> The point I'm making is that we've had these problems before SMPng, >>>> and that you can't automatically assume that it's SMPng just because >>>> you get the messages. On the other hand, the 7 digits seem to be a >>>> pretty reliable signature. >>> >>> I'm getting this error while starting XFree86 4.0.1 on my laptop computer, >>> and I'm using FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE, so I'm sure it's not the SMP stuff >>> that's causing it. >> >> Right, but you're not getting the 7 digit microsecond count, right? >> You should contact phk. > > Well, here is one of the messeges: > > Sep 7 14:35:55 laptop /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (10412.355980 -> 10412, -694583121) > > this is bad.. right ? :-) Well, at any rate it looks very funny. If this is a laptop, try building a kernel without apm and see if that helps. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message