time issues and some more

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:45:49 +0100, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>  
wrote:

> I resently upgraded a Dell PowerEdge R710, to 9.1-stable, we mainly use  
> it as
> a backup to several zfs servers (doing send|receive) without major  
> issues till
> the upgrade, it was running 8.2-stable.
>
> now, we see that sometime the time drifts, and today I noticed that it  
> was
> hung, and once I got unto the ipmi console this is what i got:
> [SOL Session operational.  Use ~? for help]
> swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 3864, size: 12288
>
> and things started moving again,
>
> in /var/log/messages:
> Jan 16 03:27:35 store-02 kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer:  
> bufobj:
> 0, blkno: 3864, size: 12288
>
> but the REAL time is 7hs ahead!, so time stood still ?
> and now, of course we get:
> Jan 16 03:54:19 store-02 ntpd[38163]: time correction of 25216 seconds  
> exceeds
> sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time.
>
> I will now reboot, and try a newer kernel and check, but any insight will
> be very helpful,
>
> thanks,
> 	danny

Does BSD 9 choose another timer source than BSD 8?
Use sysctl to check these values at your system.
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(400) i8254(100) RTC(0)
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC

Or this ones. I always confuse these.
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) ACPI-fast(900) i8254(0)  
dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low

Ronald.