Scrolling messages

Arya Nasha arya90 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 12 10:48:51 PDT 2003


Thanks a lot. Got a similar response from
"Peter Elsner" <peter at sri-software.com>

Cheers,

Arya

--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Arya Nasha <arya90 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > On FreeBSD 4.8-20030810-STABLE:
> > 
> > After i recompiled the kernel with support
> > for a few wireless ethernet interfaces, I
> > am now getting continuously scrolling messages
> > in /var/log/messages :
> > 
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.271062 -> 9808.243817)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.271062 -> 9808.249396)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.282351 -> 9808.237299)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.282351 -> 9808.249313)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.291282 -> 9808.254811)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.300854 -> 9808.255157)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.311713 -> 9808.275242)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.311713 -> 9808.282668)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.311713 -> 9808.294897)        
> > Oct  5 19:14:59 localhost /kernel: microuptime()
> went
> > backwards (9808.311713 -> 9808.304468)        
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > etc
> > 
> > I have killed xntpd, and timed, yet the messages 
> > continue unabated.
> > 
> > 
> > What did I do do wrong?
> 
> There are interrupts interfering with timekeeping.
> You should try disabling APM...


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