Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2023-12-25 11:45, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-12-24 06:09:03 -0500, Ken Wellsch <kwellsch%tampabay.rr.com@localhost> wrote:
> > I also agree - yesterday I went back to do some more testing on a
> > microVAX-II and things ran rather smoothly for about 8 hours then
> > I found this - could this have been a step adjustment that went off
> > the rails?
>
> Another observation: It *seems* that booting the older image (git
> commit 9f9251e958a194b6ba936715fb25c32077323637, Jun 6th 2023, does
> not produce the message
>
> 	[     1.048131] WARNING: lwp 30 (system rt_timer) flags 0x20000000: timecounter went backwards from (1 + 0x3462e4d1a64b88fb/2^64) sec to (1 + 0x0cd08919ef941f4f/2^64) sec in netbsd:mi_switch+0x4d
>
> while the -current image does. Did a few reboots between both, but not
> enough to claim that as a fact, but merely a hint that there might be
> a related change during the last ~ half year.
>
> (Now running idle for a few hours to see whether or not I loose time.
> Later on, I'll run that box under load.)

Can't remember if I've seen that specific message in the past, but I've 
certainly had some other time related messages for many years.

  Johnny

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