Subject: Re: negative value from ps
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 12/04/2003 20:33:50
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:23:40PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:36:04PM +0000, dieter wrote:
> > FYI, I see this also on NetBSD 1.6.2_RC2 i386 :
> 
> That's no suprise - 1.6.x (AFIK) does not have the MP-safe cycle counter
> based microtime code that Martii's 1.6ZF should be using.

Experiments with the 'old' timer chip version only proved that some
motherboards are broken.  All attempts to reliably get 'sane' values
out of the timer chip failed.


	David

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