Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:42:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To: K.J.Koster@kpn.com (Koster, K.J.)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG ('FreeBSD Hackers mailing list')
Subject: Re: Microtime acting up again
Message-ID: <200008300842.KAA86659@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D77F5@l04.research.kpn.com> from "Koster, K.J." at "Aug 30, 2000 10:34:12 am"
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It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: You should disable APM and not have it in your kernel either, that fixed it for me on my Abit KA7... > Last night my machine drowned in "microtime going backwards" errors. It was > there when I installed FreeBSD 4.0-release, and it went away when I cvsupped > to -stable immediately after. However, it is back again. > > My box is an AMD Athlon on an Asus k7v motherboard. I had cvsupped to > 4.1-stable this monday night. I was dialed into my ISP, when my machine > became sluggish. The console was spitting "microtime going backward" > messages as fast as my video board would allow. > > Under the flood I was able to shut down most applications and type "reboot" > in a root shell I happened to have open. The machine came back up, but my > mouse (logitech cordless) was crippled and spitting out psmintr out of sync > errors at me. An hour of power off eventually cured the problem. > > Anyone on this list who can explain what this microtime problem is about? > > I used to be able to reproduce it by running bonnie on my disks. I might do > that again this weekend, if I find the time. > > Kees Jan > > ================================================= > TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as > good at words as radio is because the pictures > are a distraction which demand attention, and > it's not as good as cinema because the pictures > are not nearly as good. [Douglas Adams] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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