| From: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9 |
| Date: | 2003-11-29 00:22:22 |
| Message-ID: | 200311281622.22561.darcy@wavefire.com |
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On November 28, 2003 12:33 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> I said:
> > I'm wondering if there's an actual bug in gettimeofday() in this
> > platform, such that once in a while it returns a value that's off
> > a minute or so ...
>
> Whoa. Try the following test program. Then send it in to your friendly
> local BSD hackers ....
>
> > uname -a
>
> FreeBSD pgsql74.hub.org 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #3: Sat Sep
> 20 14:16:48 ADT 2003 root(at)neptune(dot)hub(dot)org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernel
> i386
>
> > ./a.out
----8<------ snip
Further to my last email, after 30 minutes of running I was able to get
simular behavior off the 5.2 test system.
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Darcy Buskermolen
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