Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:46:51 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com> Subject: The alternate system clock has died! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961206162605.18293C-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
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We are seeing a system that occasionally gets into a state where things like top, vmstat, etc. give odd numbers. systat will give the message "The alternate system clock has died!". I remember talk of this problem before on the lists, but can't find it since the search engine at www.freebsd.org seems to be down. (anyone know where a plain-text ftpable copy of the list archives is?) Was this issue ever resolved? Does it cause any more serious problems? It looks like cp_time stops getting updated; would I be right to guess that cp_time is just an alternate clock used only for profiling type things? The server is running -stable, so I wouldn't be too suprised if it has been fixed in -current.
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