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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:41:50 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        Ilias Sachpazidis <isachpaz@pandora.teimes.gr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: calcru 
Message-ID:  <199902110141.RAA01864@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:40:35 PST." <4.1.19990210173901.00a67500@mail-r> 

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> At 03:23 PM 2/10/99 , Ilias Sachpazidis wrote:
> >I got that message :
> >
> >calcru: negative time of -77345163 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77344994 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77344852 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77276366 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77276200 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77276060 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77209034 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >calcru: negative time of -77208797 usec for pid 5230 (ssh1)
> >
> >What is that ? There is any problem  ?
> 
> Search the mailing list archives (maybe -questions). There was a big
> discussion about this a few months ago. It means that you have funny
> hardware (ISA cards?) and maybe also a driver that aggravates it.

No, it means that our timecounter code is broken, and the author has 
been unwilling/unable to fix it for > 6 months.

(He also got roundly canned for his presentation of it at Usenix, BTW.)

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