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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:47:55 +0900
From:      YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt@myrealbox.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...
Message-ID:  <20031129044755.GA26980@myrealbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031129003221.F99096@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20031128212342.G99096@ganymede.hub.org> <20031129025137.GA92629@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031129003221.F99096@ganymede.hub.org>

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Hello.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:36:22AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > What hardware, kernel configuration, etc?  Do you have a misconfigured
> > ntpd/timed that is manually flapping the time around?
> 
> Hardware for the above is a Dual-Xeon, 4Gig of RAM, and about 421
> processes running on it currently ... kernel config is at the bottom, but
> I don't think there is anything 'abnormal' about it ... and note that I've
> had others be able to reproduce the problem on both 4.x and 5.x systems
> ...
> 
> as to ntpd/timed ... don't run either ... run ntpdate twice a day (11:59
> and 23:59), but that is it as far as playing with the clock is concerned
> ...

What does `sysctl kern.timecounter' show? Also, does changing
kern.timecounter.hardware (TSC, i8254, ACPI-safe, ...) affect the
results from your test program?



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