ts_to_ct flood on 8.1-STABLE

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:16:01PM -0400, Andrew J. Caines wrote:
> Since installing 8.1-RC2 and now on up-to-date RELENG_8 I am frequently
> getting kern.crit messages like
> 
> ts_to_ct(1281661818.743348859) = [2010-08-13 01:10:18]
> 
> and have been unable so far to determine their origin or purpose. I saw
> no such messages while running 7.x or earlier releases.
> 
> AFAICT the system[1] is running fine. Athlon XP, 2GB, nVidia mobo and
> GPU, Intel and Realtek NICs, various ATA and USB disks all in a custom
> kernel. I've posted details of the system configuration[2].
> 
> Advice would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> [1] http://halplant.com:2001/systems.html#HAL10000
> [2] http://halplant.com:2001/server/config/HAL10000/

The source/responsible code for the printing is in function
clock_ts_to_ct() in:

src/sys/kern/subr_clock.c


181 void
182 clock_ts_to_ct(struct timespec *ts, struct clocktime *ct)
183 {
...
214         if (ct_debug) {
215                 printf("ts_to_ct(%ld.%09ld) = ",
216                     (long)ts->tv_sec, (long)ts->tv_nsec);
217                 print_ct(ct);
218                 printf("\n");
219         }

So what's ct_debug?

 52 #define ct_debug bootverbose

Are your systems booting verbosely?

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