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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 07:34:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: microuptime() went backwards
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0009080733540.10714-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000908135433.V83632@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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If I build the kernel without apm, then there is no clock because the
statclock is broken on this computer.


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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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
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