Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:55:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: darin@slovitt.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limits Problems ... Message-ID: <199810152355.QAA28005@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810151853.NAA16334@unix.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 15, 98 01:52:59 pm
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> I've had this ever since the beginning of summer or thereabouts when i > put -current on this toshiba 660cdt laptop. when i reported this, all > i got were a lot of "that's what you get when you run -current" > messages, and a couple of potentially useful messages stating that it > might be caused by the apm counters. ----> IT'S NOT APM. This happens on a box I have that wouldn't know an APM if it ran up and bit it on the ass. The box was designed prior to APM existing. ----> IT'S NOT A BUGGY 486 L2 CACHE. This box doesn't *have* an L2 cache. ----> IT'S NOT A BUGGY 486 L1 CACHE. This box's 486 stepping postdates the 486 L1 cache problems, but to be on the safe side, I wrote the configuration register and *turned the L1 cache off*. THE PROBLEM DOES NOT EXIST IN 2.2.5. > i have heard nothing more about this, the problem has never been > fixed, and is now going into -RELEASE. > > and to the jerks who gave the "that's what you get when you run > -current" answers originally, -current is also for reporting problems > such as these so they don't get into -release... > > i know people have a lot to discuss, such as x and y chromosomes, and > very little time for stuff like this. The "monoclock" is going backwards. There are quotes here, since real monoclocks, by definition, *can't* go backwards (the "mono" stands for "monotonically increasing", and going backwards involves *decreasing*). I don't care if APM kicks in, and the laptop is in suspend mode for 10 frigging *years*, the value from the monoclock at the time the process is started can *NEVER* *NEVER* *EVER* exceed the current monoclock time. This is a DEFINITION. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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