Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:03:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entry on "calcru: negative time" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812031158490.12937-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981203125900.A27570@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > In a NetBSD forum, I suggested using an exponential scheme for > printing the message: print it for the first, second, 4th, > 8th, 16th, ... 1048576th, ... occurrence. This is pretty much > bound to waste no more than 32 lines in the log file, but also > gives one an idea of how often it is occurring (compared to > simply printing once). I've been using such a scheme for a few > years in some of my own code, and find it invaluable! That's a cool idea. I'll have to remember that :) > BTW, on our system (built from 3.0-19981103-SNAP), we see > calcru problems, but sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1 prints: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.timecounter.method'. Do I just need to > upgrade to a newer kernel? The problem started when I tried to > run XF86_3DLabs, for a Fire GL Pro 1000 card, from XFree86-3.3.3. Yeah, you need to move up a month or so. It appears XFree86 excaserbates the problem, based on discussion in other forums. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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