Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 04:29:50 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: calcru: negative time: %qd usec Message-ID: <199511121729.EAA00906@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199511121717.EAA17041@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 13, 95 04:17:27 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> It is caused by the clock running backwards. That's cute :-) > The message comes from kern_resource.c. The bogus time [difference] > probably comes from a bug in microtime(). Perhaps the 8254 counter is > not being read correctly, or a time daemon is fiddling with the clock. I am running xntpd but, with the machine under load (e.g. make world), these messages appear at 5-10 second intervals even though there is no time "stepping" going on .. only adjtime to correct a ~13ppm drift with ~53ppm stability (steps are very infrequent), michael
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199511121729.EAA00906>