From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 06:45:45 2004 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 9D5B616A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13905.mail.yahoo.com (web13905.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D5343D2D for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roy2098@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040125144542.15702.qmail@web13905.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.82.112.1] by web13905.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:45:42 PST Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:45:42 -0800 (PST) From: RA Cohen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: calcru negative-time messages 4.X vs 5.X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: roy2098@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:45:45 -0000 I am still unable to get rid of these on my 5.2 installation running on AMD K6-2 450 MHz hardware. FBSD 4.9 ran just fine on this box with nary a hiccup. I am ruling out faulty hardware as the culprit as I test loaded 4.9 back on the system yesterday and saw not a one of the above messages. The scant information I find on this message relates to FBSD 4.X and below, I believe. There, you can run sysctl kern.timecounter.method=1 (up from a default value of 0) to get rid of them. In my case, it was unnecessary to do this as the messages were nonexistent. The kernel has obviously changed in v 5.X and this timecounter parameter is not available. There are other microtime variables, though, but I am completely at a loss to know which if any to tweak. Other than these messages filling up the logs, the machine appears stable but I have not tested it fully by any means. They are, however, a pain in the neck when doing anything from the console. Please help if you can. I am not the only one with this problem, I wonder if others have given up and gone back to versions 4.X... Thank you all, Roy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/