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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Microtime acting up again
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
> 
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