From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 3:35:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EA3151EB for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA67934; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:33:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:33:53 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Paul Murphy Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ntpdate error? msg. Message-ID: <19991124123352.U58890@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <383B5A70.1A0F2A66@earthling.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <383B5A70.1A0F2A66@earthling.net>; from pmurphy@earthling.net on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:24:32PM -0500 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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 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