From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 14:18:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7586337B401 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-124.maa.sify.net [210.214.66.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE30643FBD for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 14:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net) Received: by dhumketu.homeunix.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 46A1B5DA; Tue, 20 May 2003 02:05:00 +0530 (IST) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 02:05:00 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: Christopher Rosado Message-ID: <20030519203500.GB37777@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Rosado , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030518213036.GA1513@dhumketu.homeunix.net> <200305190403.24229.chris@topher.gintera.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305190403.24229.chris@topher.gintera.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Eh? Whats that? X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mircouptime()??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:18:15 -0000 +-- Christopher Rosado [19-05-03 04:04 -0600]: | On Sunday 18 May 2003 03:30 pm, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: | | > Hi! | > I got the following msg. | > | > microuptime() went backwards (14208.429157 -> 13513.043743) | | You have an AMD CPU, and you have APM enabled in your kernel, would be my | guess (since I suffered from this exact problem when first switching to | FreeBSD). Hey, that's the correct guess. | | > what does it mean? should i have to worry? | | Yes, you do need to worry - your machine will eventually do an unclean reboot, yes that happens, but i never thought in that direction. | depending on how much you tax it. I lost a hard drive while I was trying to | fix this problem, due to many unclean spontaneous reboots. | | You need to *immediately* build a new kernel with absolutely nothing | APM-related enabled. Commenting out, or removing, the "device apm0" line and | rebuilding the kernel should be sufficient. Once you do that, you'll be | fine... just don't expect to be able to take advantage of APM (not that big | of a deal anyway). Rt. now compiling the kernel. Will let you know abt. future development. | | -- | Christopher Rosado | "Liberalism leads to loss of liberty." - Me Thanks a lot. Regards, Shantanu -- Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.