Subject: Re: kern/14058 (time-of-day goes backwards)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/24/2006 10:10:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/14058; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: itohy@NetBSD.org (ITOH Yasufumi)
To: mrg@eterna.com.au
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/14058 (time-of-day goes backwards)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:05:07 +0900
In article <29942.1159082142@splode.eterna.com.au>
mrg@eterna.com.au writes:
> 2.1_STABLE Pentium 4 doesn't reproduce
One correction; this machine reproduced the problem.
I ran the test program for about two hours and got
% ./a.out
1159086053 580515 < 1159086054 580515
1159086834 550754 < 1159086835 550754
1159090587 291847 < 1159090588 291847
^C
%
> works fine on p4-m, g4/733 and ultrasparc/440.
So, we need several days to say "works fine." :-)
> i am wondering
> if the above system would be OK with timecounters?
Possibly.
However, the machines are in production and I may not be able
to test on them until the timecounter code will be in a release.
--
ITOH Yasufumi