calcru negative-time messages

[Jack L. Stone]

At 12:47 PM 1.23.2004 -0800, RA Cohen wrote:
>I have searched high and low for help with these negative-time
>calcru messages...there is scant information out there, mostly a
>paragraph in the troubleshooting section of the FreeBSD docs.
>Most folks following the instructions there on later versions of
>FBSD seem to not be successful in getting rid of the messages,
>myself included. Therefore I have slid back to versions 4.8 or
>4.9.
>
>I believe in my case the messages relate to an AMD K6-2 chip and
>motherboard. FBSD 5.1 and 5.2 exhibit the behavior; 4.8 and 4.9
>do not on this hardware.
>
>As I am writing this from my day job, and the unit in question
>is currently built with 4.9 now anyway, I cannot give you the
>exact message but if you google for 'calcru FreeBSD' you will
>see what I am talking about.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Roy

Roy, check out man MICROTIME(9).

...might give this a try:
# sysctl -w kern.timecounter.method=1

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

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