From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 17:26:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12683 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050ndd.san.rr.com (root@dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12678 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dougdougdougdoug@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050ndd.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00627; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <34FA0AAF.CC9983AA@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 17:26:07 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0228 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: calcru: negative time revisited References: <199803012045.MAA24294@myrtle1.bogs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Shenaut wrote: > > I get the infamous "calcru: negative time ..." message on all the > machines I have installed fbsd 2.2.5 on so far, as I also did on > several other versions. Doing a little investigation, I found > quite a few references on the mailing list archives, but never a > complete explanation of how to get rid of the messages, or of why > they should be so common. I can't help you with fixing the microtime code, but if it's any consolation you've correctly identified the cause of the calcru problem. I see this whenever the boot probe picks up an incorrect value for the frequency of my cpu. I've been meaning to write about this, so if anyone is actually interested in the problem, let me know. :) In the short term, you can fix your machines by commenting out the cpu definitions you don't need and recompiling your kernels. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message