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To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:09:09 PST."
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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:54:02 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812011106101.3658-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Doug W
hite writes:
>On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Q:  My machine prints "calcru: negative time..."
>
>A thought on this.  Could we create a sysctl that shuts this message up?
>I suspect some people are just going to have to live with it and they may
>actually want to read their system log. :)  This is PC hardware; the
>likelihood of it being fixed in the near future is about zero, unless we
>have the ear of a large motherboard manufacturer or few.

This is actually Very Bad News for a system, and running with it very
quickly becomes very very irritating.  It is the same feeling as a
bad-ram system, processes die left and right.

Generally it is a particular piece of hardware, or a driver not doing
what it needs to do about interrupts which is at fault.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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