Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:33:53 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Paul Murphy <pmurphy@earthling.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ntpdate error? msg. Message-ID: <19991124123352.U58890@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <383B5A70.1A0F2A66@earthling.net>; from pmurphy@earthling.net on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:24:32PM -0500 References: <383B5A70.1A0F2A66@earthling.net>
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-On [19991124 04:55], Paul Murphy (pmurphy@earthling.net) wrote: >Nova.conyers.net kernel log messages: >> calcru: negative time of -695417471 usec for pid 1966 (cron) > > This message occasionally shows up in syslog, it is presumably from >ntpdate (my only cron job). Is this an error that needs to be fixed or >nothing to worry about? Per suggestion of Daniel Sobral when I enquired if this was in the FAQ: Possibly, but the error has been caused by different bugs at different times. Have you tried sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1? Also, check LINT, NTIMECOUNTER. And I like to add, look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#AEN1205 -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <asmodai@bart.nl> bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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