freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - 6.0 on VMWare 5.0: `calcru: negative runtime of -12728437 usec for pid 28 (irq17: lnc0)'

Hello freebsd-stable,

  FreeBSD 6.0 on VMWare 5.0 prints such messages every 3-4 minute.
  Also, messages like

calcru: runtime went backwards from 40644816 to 40005944 usec for pid 3 (g_up)

  is shown routinely.

  timecounter is ACPI-safe, kernel is GENERIC one.

  5.4-STABLE on some virtual machine runs without such messages.

  And, hey, numbers are TOOOOOO big to be true, aren't they?

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 Lev                          mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org

Lev Serebryakov wrote this message on Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:53
+0300:
> Hello freebsd-stable,
> 
>   FreeBSD 6.0 on VMWare 5.0 prints such messages every 3-4 minute.
>   Also, messages like
> 
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 40644816 to 40005944 usec for pid 3
(g_up)
> 
>   is shown routinely.
> 
>   timecounter is ACPI-safe, kernel is GENERIC one.
> 
>   5.4-STABLE on some virtual machine runs without such messages.
> 
>   And, hey, numbers are TOOOOOO big to be true, aren't they?
A coworker saw this recently (on 4.x iirc)... and a quick fix was:
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8259

Though I don't know if there is a better fix for it though...

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Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello freebsd-stable,
> 
>   FreeBSD 6.0 on VMWare 5.0 prints such messages every 3-4 minute.
>   Also, messages like
> 
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 40644816 to 40005944 usec for pid 3
(g_up)
> 
>   is shown routinely.
> 
>   timecounter is ACPI-safe, kernel is GENERIC one.
> 
>   5.4-STABLE on some virtual machine runs without such messages.
> 
>   And, hey, numbers are TOOOOOO big to be true, aren't they?
Try using TSC or i8254:
sysctl kern.MUMBLE.timecounter=TSC

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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello freebsd-stable,
>
>   FreeBSD 6.0 on VMWare 5.0 prints such messages every 3-4 minute.
>   Also, messages like
>
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 40644816 to 40005944 usec for pid 3
(g_up)
>
>   is shown routinely.
Get used to it. VMWare does evil, evil things with the virtual machine
clocks. We have problems with massive clock drift with Linux as the host
and guest OSen.

Comment out the printf and rebuild your kernel :-)

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