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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:30:33 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_clock.c 
Message-ID:  <12393.912439833@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:08:52 %2B0800." <199811301508.XAA11566@spinner.netplex.com.au> 

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>I've come in late, so please forgive me if I'm missing something..
>
>Why is repeating:
>
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>calcru: negative time ....
>[.. etc etc ...]
>
>over and over again better than doing this once:
>
>calcru: negative time ....
>WARNING: switching timecounter to slightly slower method. Set the sysctl
>'kern.timecounter.method' 1 at boot to make this permanent (see /etc/rc.conf).

Because I want the system to be bloddy unstable, weird and generally
misbehaving, so that people actively have to acknowledge that it
is broken in some way (hw and/or sw).

>After all, we stop printing 'stray interrupt' messages after the first few 

Stray interrupts doesn't mean that your system is potentially hosed in
really interesting ways.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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