Subject: Re: timewarps
To: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/2002 21:43:32
by "worse" I mean that my box shows a timewarp about 10 times per second,
every second, all the time.  also, about 1/4 of the timewarps on my box
are just a few microseconds instead of the usual ~1 clock-tick.

-Chuck


On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:49:40PM -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:57:51PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > I'm taking that to mean that the counter/timer hardware
> > that microtime() uses is unreliable in this box.
> > can anyone offer another interpretation?
> > 
> > for other people who see microtime() going backward,
> > there's probably a different cause, since this box has
> > the problem *much* worse than anyone else I've heard from so far.
> 	Do you mean the amount of backwards shift?  If so, I'm getting about
> the same difference: about 10000 usec.  (As if we're missing a clock tick)
> However, I get no problems from the job-completion stats.
> 	On average, I'm getting 1 backwarks moving time every 19 seconds.
> 
> eric