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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:50:57 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alternate system clock has died
Message-ID:  <20030630205057.GA2249@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20030627115208.GC90536@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
References:  <20030627115208.GC90536@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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 Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 13:52:08, stijn (Stijn Hoop) wrote about "alternate system clock has died": 

SH> I'm getting the message in the subject when I run systat -vm on a lightly
SH> loaded server. Top shows interesting CPU usage %:
SH> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle

See LINT:

# Notes on APM
#  The flags takes the following meaning for apm0:
#    0x0020  Statclock is broken.
#  If apm is omitted, some systems require sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1
#  for correct timekeeping.

This is possibly the first thing should be done seeing dead statclock.
It was actual for SMP motherboards based on 440BX and similar chipsets.

> Could this have to do
> with the battery-backed CMOS clock?

Yes, statclock is RTC interrupts, but even if battery is dead, interrupts
should work.


-netch-



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