Re: Seeing a lot of 'microuptime() went backwards' messages duringheavy disk I/O

2001-12-19 Thread Julian Elischer
I've been seeing them a lot too on a "recent" (NOV) -current On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of this during heavy disk I/O (5 postmark benchmarks > running in parallel): > > microuptime() went backwards (44525.3954411 -> 44524.563978) > microuptime() went

Re: Seeing a lot of 'microuptime() went backwards' messages duringheavy disk I/O

2001-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This has been asked on just about every FreeBSD list since the printf was :added. Use the archives, man! :) : :This is when you have a device generating too much interrupt latency -- :enough to stall the RTC. Usually the offender is video cards, but in this :case it could be your IDE controlle

Re: Seeing a lot of 'microuptime() went backwards' messages duringheavy disk I/O

2001-12-19 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I'm seeing a lot of this during heavy disk I/O (5 postmark benchmarks > running in parallel): > > microuptime() went backwards (44525.3954411 -> 44524.563978) > microuptime() went backwards (57425.4282241 -> 57424.766121) > microuptime() went b