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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:57:56 +0100 (BST)
From:      David Carter-Hitchin <david@carter-hitchin.clara.co.uk>
To:        Heath Volmer <heath@yourdigitaldomain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: calcru: negative time...  lots of odd "errors"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0310240656550.80968-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c399b9$32d4c430$0400000a@NB2>

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Hi,

Looks like you may have a hardware fault:

from /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_clock.c

 *   0 - every tick, bad hardware may fail with "calcru negative..."

David

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Heath Volmer wrote:

> Hopefully this one will get through...
>  
> I've searched exhaustively for an answer to this question, and can only
> get answers that aren't entirely clear to me.
>  
> I'm getting messages like: calcru: negative time of -630883 usec for pid
> 537(sh).
>  
> Getting probably 40 or so at boot and an occasional one during use.
>  
> This a new 5.1 install on an older K6 500Mhz system that was given to
> me.
>  
> I have read something about a sysctl command (no good.)
>  
> Also have seen something about a kernel TIMECOUNTER (I think) config
> value.
>  
> I've also seen something about PnP, bios settings, IRQ probs, etc.  I'm
> a bit too new at this to know where to take it.
>  
> Help!
>  
> Thanks, Heats
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