Re: microuptime() went backwards

[Greg Lehey]

On Thursday,  7 September 2000 at 22:43:11 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>>> Sep  7 14:35:55 laptop /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (10412.355980 -> 
>10412, -694583121)y
>>>
>>> this is bad.. right ? :-)
>>
>> Well, at any rate it looks very funny.  If this is a laptop, try
>> building a kernel without apm and see if that helps.
>
> It only helps "hide" the problem.  There's either *extremely* bogus data
> coming in, or an arithmetic or sequencing error that's allowing a corrupt
> timecounter to be seen.

Correct.  As I mentioned earlier in the thread, phk has an idea what
the problem is, and he's asked for people with it to contact him.

Greg
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