From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 12:20:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max6-27.gbis.net [207.228.61.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5AB37B582 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA03933; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:19:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <0ff301bf8096$dc1cfc00$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Paul Murphy" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: My machine prints "calcru: negative time..." Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 12:19:08 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there any way of tracking down _exactly_ what is causing the >"calcru" failure? Take a look at the output from 'dmesg' and find the TSC line: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 90205147 Hz Is it anywhere close to the real speed of your CPU? I have an old Dell Pentium 90 that randomly boots up at a reported processor speed of 55, 76, 83, 87 and 89 MHz. I have to keep rebooting over and over until it finally settles in at 90.21 MHz. If I leave it at anything below 85 MHz, I get "calcru" errors non-stop... There's also a solution in the archives (if they're up yet) about setting the TSC value (machdep.tsc_freq) with sysctl, but it's never worked for me. BTW, I think this is a hardware fluke, not really FBSD's fault. My Dell P166 server at work has *never* given me fits like my P90 machine does... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message