Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 18:16:21 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, garman@earthling.net, terbart@aye.net Subject: Re: more dying daemons Message-ID: <8296.911668581@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Nov 1998 03:54:46 %2B1100." <199811211654.DAA21545@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199811211654.DAA21545@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>If by "the clock bug" you mean the "calcru negative..." it has been >>nailed. Many thanks to msmith, wosch & wpaul for help in tracking >>it down. >> >>It is as predicted caused by hardclock() interrupts being disabled >>for far too long. This seems to happen on some specific types of >>hardware, the PLIP code for the parallel port being the most readily >>available. > >Erm, it is caused by _non_-hardclock() interrupts being disabled for >for too long. No, it is caused by hardclock being called with much smaller than 1/hz in between. -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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