Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:54:02 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" Message-ID: <19670.912542042@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:09:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812011106101.3658-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812011106101.3658-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Doug W hite writes: >On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Q: My machine prints "calcru: negative time..." > >A thought on this. Could we create a sysctl that shuts this message up? >I suspect some people are just going to have to live with it and they may >actually want to read their system log. :) This is PC hardware; the >likelihood of it being fixed in the near future is about zero, unless we >have the ear of a large motherboard manufacturer or few. This is actually Very Bad News for a system, and running with it very quickly becomes very very irritating. It is the same feeling as a bad-ram system, processes die left and right. Generally it is a particular piece of hardware, or a driver not doing what it needs to do about interrupts which is at fault. -- 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-questions" in the body of the message
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