Subject: Re: negative value from ps
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 12/03/2003 20:21:42
Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:52:10PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> 
>> PID TT STAT    TIME COMMAND
>>   0 ?? DKs  0:-1.99 [swapper]
> 
> 
> Apparently microtime(9) stepped backward (which should never happen). Does
> your CPU have the TSC feature (see dmesg)? Is this with a multiprocessor

This a 3 year old Dell PowerEdge 2400.

NetBSD 1.6ZF (P3) #0: Wed Dec  3 11:59:24 EET 2003
         root@p3:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/P3
total memory = 511 MB
avail memory = 466 MB
using 6144 buffers containing 26296 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xffe90
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (686-class), 993.39 MHz, id 0x686
cpu0: features 383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 383fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu0: features 383fbff<FXSR,SSE>
cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way
cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32b/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: 8 page colors
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1