Subject: Re: timewarps
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/2002 21:49:40
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:57:51PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> I'm taking that to mean that the counter/timer hardware
> that microtime() uses is unreliable in this box.
> can anyone offer another interpretation?
>
> for other people who see microtime() going backward,
> there's probably a different cause, since this box has
> the problem *much* worse than anyone else I've heard from so far.
Do you mean the amount of backwards shift? If so, I'm getting about
the same difference: about 10000 usec. (As if we're missing a clock tick)
However, I get no problems from the job-completion stats.
On average, I'm getting 1 backwarks moving time every 19 seconds.
eric