i386/43491: microuptime () went backwards

Matthias Buelow mkb at mukappabeta.de
Sat Apr 26 12:30:27 PDT 2003


Simon Walton writes:

>Subject: Re: i386/43491: microuptime () went backwards
>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:23:31 -0700
>
>    Just to add another data point - I am also
> seeing this on a dual Pentium Pro system with
> an Intel Orion chipset. Typically after a few

Just to add to the record, I have seen this to also be part
of the effects of a broken SCSI drive, apparently with the drive's
electronics gone stale.  Sometimes just a massive stream of the
above microuptime()... messages whenever the disk was accessed,
and after some time (but not always) followed by a total lockup
with a bus reset every second (but sometimes just thousands of
microuptime() messages, system was going normal apart from that,
except for time+date and the logfile filling, of course.)
Removing the drive fixed that.

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Matthias Buelow
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