Subject: Re: ps(1) reports negative cpu time
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/03/2005 15:54:43
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:40:17PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > Martin Husemann --> netbsd-users (2005-08-03 15:10:24 +0200):
> > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:09:03PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> > > > BTW, the system runs ntpd(8), in case this matters:
> > > 
> > > But ntpd does not push time backwards, I thought.
> > > Do you run ntpdate at boot?
> > 
> > Yes, 'ntpdate -bsu'.
> 
> If you leave the -b switch off (ntpdate -su), the time will be gradually
> corrected, instead of stepped at once.  

Hm, but since you're also running ntpd, this will probably be equivalent to
not running ntpdate at all.  

GH