> On Sunday,  1 August 1999 at 22:17:51 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> >> What makes this all the more puzzling is that it happens only on one
> >> machine.  Hint: it's a laptop (Dell Latitude CPi).  panic is a normal
> >> Pentium machine of no particular lineage.  Does this ring a bell with
> >> anybody?
> >
> > Do you have APM enabled?  Do you have the "broken statclock" option
> > enabled?
> 
> I do now :-)
> 
> > Have you tried permuting these two?
> 
> Yes.  I needed apm and broken statclock, and that did it.  Thanks.
> 
> (And why did it only happen in the past couple of weeks?  Probably
> because I migrated from 3.2 to -CURRENT a little while before that,
> and didn't realise that there were problems until some time later).

Until I pessimised it a little while back, the system would still try 
to keep time on an APM machine the same as it would on a desktop, with 
the sort of results you were seeing.  We broke this a while before by 
changing the way that APM support is initialised.

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