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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@cs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: calcru error messages
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Benjamin Greenwald wrote:

> I am consistently getting spammed on my console with messages looking 
> something like this:
> 
> /kernel calcru: negative time: -741 usec
> 
> What on earth does this mean?

I would guess your system clock is timewarping.  I would suggest checking
your CMOS clock and/or start running xntpd and finding a local ntp server
to sync time from.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major