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I always used to get this when I ran console screen saver kernel modules
(like firesaver and the like).  I noticed that when those were running,
the system spent almost all of its time servicing interrupts.  If I had to
guess, in my particular case, it was so busy servicing whatever interrupts
were caused/generated by the running of the screen saver, that it was
missing the RTC (real time clock) interrupts.

Just a guess based on my experiences.

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Florin MANAILA wrote:

> Hi all,
> I receve some strange error on my FreeBSD 4.5 :
>
>
> /kernel:  microptime () went backwords (29281.21038151 -> 29281.820797)
> /kernel:  microptime () went backwords (29281.21038151 -> 29281.639506)
> /kernel:  microptime () went backwords (29281.21038151 -> 29281.639505)
> /kernel:  microptime () went backwords (29281.21038151 -> 29281.639507)
>
> etc.
>
> ?????  What's this strange error ????
>
> My system wen I receve this error is work very , very slow , but all
> traffic  that is make from an ether to anoter (from xl0 to xl1) is OK
> This system is a firewall/gateway freebsd-router with 200 CPU Pentium
> MMX
>
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