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Date:      Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:33:15 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        'freebsd-current' <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PSA: If you run -current, beware!
Message-ID:  <8089702.oYScRm8BTN@overcee.wemm.org>

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Sometime in the Dec 10th through Jan 7th timeframe a timing bug has bee=
n=20
introduced to 11.x/head/-current.    With HZ=3D1000 (the default for ba=
re metal,=20
not for a vm); the clocks stop just after 24 days of uptime.  This mean=
s=20
things like cron, sleep, timeouts etc stop working.  TCP/IP won't time =
out or=20
retransmit, etc etc.  It can get ugly.

The problem is NOT in 10.x/-stable.

We hit this in the freebsd.org cluster, the builds that we used are:
FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r275684: Wed Dec 10 20:38:43 UTC 2014 - fine
FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r276779: Wed Jan  7 18:47:09 UTC 2015 - broken

If you are running -current in a situation where it'll accumulate uptim=
e, you=20
may want to take precautions.  A reboot prior to 24 days uptime (as hor=
rible a=20
workaround as that is) will avoid it.

Yes, this is being worked on.
=2D-=20
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI=
6FJV
UTF-8: for when a ' or ... just won\342\200\231t do\342\200\246
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