Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:06:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microuptime() went backwards Message-ID: <20000908150620.Y83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200009080543.WAA01815@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:43:11PM -0700 References: <20000908135433.V83632@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200009080543.WAA01815@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thursday, 7 September 2000 at 22:43:11 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >>> Sep 7 14:35:55 laptop /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (10412.355980 -> 10412, -694583121)y >>> >>> 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. > > It only helps "hide" the problem. There's either *extremely* bogus data > coming in, or an arithmetic or sequencing error that's allowing a corrupt > timecounter to be seen. Correct. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, phk has an idea what the problem is, and he's asked for people with it to contact him. 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
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