On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> > Apparently microtime(9) stepped backward (which should never happen). Does
> > your CPU have the TSC feature (see dmesg)? Is this with a multiprocessor
>
> This a 3 year old Dell PowerEdge 2400.
>
> NetBSD 1.6ZF (P3) #0: Wed Dec  3 11:59:24 EET 2003
>          root@p3:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/P3

FYI, I see this also on NetBSD 1.6.2_RC2 i386 :

  PID TT  STAT        TIME COMMAND
    0 ??  DKs      0:-34.36 [swapper]
  257 ??  Ss      -1:-17.23 /usr/libexec/postfix/master
  284 ??  Ss      -2:-6.41 /usr/sbin/cron
  295 ??  Ss      -1:-17.93 fetchmail
  297 E0- S        0:-33.59 postmaster: stats collector process (postgres)

Some days seem to be worse than others. (I can tell by running for
instance "time echo -n" a few times. There are times where this gives
ludicrous results almost every time.)

NetBSD 1.6.2_RC2 (GAOSU) #4: Tue Nov 18 14:34:50 UTC 2003
    root@gaosu.rave.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GAOSU
cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 2 (686-class), 651.19 MHz
cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64b/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64b/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 64b/line 2-way
cpu0: features 183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 183f9ff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,FGPAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu0: features 183f9ff<FXSR>


kind regards,
dieter

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