From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 31 2:21:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.uni-kl.de (news.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC20937B609 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 02:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from holger@eit.uni-kl.de) Received: from postamt.eit.uni-kl.de ( postamt.eit.uni-kl.de [131.246.73.100] ) by news.uni-kl.de id aa26829 for ; 31 May 2000 11:21 MESZ Received: from ernie.eit.uni-kl.de (root@fs.eit.uni-kl.de [131.246.12.176]) by postamt.eit.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12435 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:21:39 +0200 Received: from ernie.eit.uni-kl.de (holger@ernie.eit.uni-kl.de [131.246.12.176]) by ernie.eit.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA31375 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:26:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:26:05 +0200 (MEST) From: Holger Lamm To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: microuptime went backwards on Athlon In-Reply-To: <39362619.D6A1ECEE@onlinehome.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Dirk Zoller wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^ future seems not bright today.. :-) > Now I see the system going nuts with zillions of messages "microuptime > went backwards" in the syslog. Actually the system becomes unusable because > it is so busy writing these messages. Hmm, I get these messages from time to time, in packets of 4-6, and on both systems: The first is a K6-2/400, board Asus P5A, running 4.0-STABLE, the other is a 166 MHz Alpha (AXPpci33) under 5.0-CURRENT. > At the same time the clock moves rapidly forward. Within a few minutes > the output of the date command advances by several hours. My clock seems all right. However, I only get these messages every hour or so. > I'm not sure when this happens but it seems to be start when > the system is under load of a big compile job. I.e. I can use it for Running distributed net client all the time. Holger -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Say NO to HTML in email and news X Sag NEIN zu HTML in email und news / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message