From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 17:02:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0771065672 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDEB8FC1E for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-3.01 (built Jul 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0JX9003EQONEC2A0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:02:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.202.173.59]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-3.01 (built Jul 12 2007; 32bit)) with SMTP id <0JX900EKQONDQ0J0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:02:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:02:01 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080305180201.436fa2f6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <47CDA877.5060609@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080304203226.0039ffd1.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <47CDA877.5060609@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.9-stable: weird messages in /var/log/messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:02:04 -0000 On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:52:23 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: > It is reporting large variations in the rate of your time clock (see > kern_tc.c). Aha, I see. Thanks for explaining that. > Also, you appear to be emailing from the distant future. Please > reply with stock tips :) distant future, even? :-) The two things share a common symptom; the nic on that particular machine is a ral(4) one, and I am having connectivity problems (connections from other machines to this particular machine drops). That's why I booted the machine with verbose messages, and got those messages in the first place. It looks like network connectivity going away without the network interface going down / up has confused ntpd, I had to restart it just now. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen