From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7b32d82f3297154c5f7dab6a33d32a1e@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:37:28 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] timesync doubletime In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180608071846j5881c405r696eb4520a4fb762@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9935133a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i'm sure rebooting would solve the problem. that seems like the easy way out. there seems to be a real bug here, and i'd like to figure out what's going on. were you using a multiprocessor? - erik On Mon Aug 7 20:47:05 CDT 2006, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote: > i've seen this behaviour before. start 'stats' and see whether it > updates unreasonably fast/slow. reboot fixed the problem in my case > and i've only seen it a couple of times circa 2003 or so... > > > it seems to me that the problem must be in the kernel and sleep (thus the > > kernel's fastticks) must be running too fast.