From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 21 10:23: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-198-26.noos.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1195737B41B for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00526; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:22:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3C9A24DF.49992674@herbelot.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:22:23 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yann Ramin Cc: "E.B. Dreger" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microuptime() going backward in 4.5-R References: <3C99429D.3000500@atrustrivalie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yann Ramin wrote: > > I had a similar problem when I upgraded to my new Athlon system. For > some reason a rather old Intel fxp based card was causing time to go > backwards when the interface was brought up. Didn't do that in 4.3-R > which I was running before I upgraded everything. Never did really > resolve it, just plucked the card. The motherboard is a Soyo Dragon Plus > with an Athlon 1700+. I'm using the onboard VIA Rhine II, which is > perfectly adequte for me. Just something to throw into the pile of odd > and assorted problems. > > Yann > > E.B. Dreger wrote: > > >Greetings all, > > > >My Micron PTSAM (Samurai bridge) dual-CPU board has been > >experiencing time travel since upgrading to 4.5-R. 4.4-R and > >4.3-R were stable. > > I suppose you see "microuptime time went backwards" error message ? If so, you could try setting "options NTIMECOUNTER=20" in your kernel config (ISTR phk even added recently NTIMECOUNTER=HZ) FWIW, this solved my problem on dual-P6 running 4.5-S TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message