FAQ entry on calcru could use updated

[Bill Moran]

I was cleaning out my inbox, and I saw that nobody every replied to this,
and that nothing was ever done.

Is everyone just too busy to look at this, or is there another reason?

Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 
> This FAQ entry is woefully out of date:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE
> 
> The sysctl referenced doesn't even exist in newer versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> I was going to write up a patch, when I found out that this entry:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#LAPTOP-CLOCK-SKEW
> actually contains the fix that I've used whenever I get the calcru
> problem on 5.x.
> 
> I would suggest eliminating the answer in the calcru entry and merging
> the two entries, as the solution is the same on 5.x
> 
> However, I've never seen the problem on 4.x, so I don't know if the
> technique of setting kern.timecounter.method=1 workes or not.
> 
> Comments?  Suggestions?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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