On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:12:25AM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote: > >Is do_gettimeofday supposed to be monotonous? > > Nope. > > > I'm seeing time go backward by tiny amounts, and then progressing. > > Are you running NTP? Corrections could cause this.
No. I am running a machine which often changes it clockspeed though. The bad news is that I don't appear to be able to reproduce this, there must be something specific that causes it. But then again, it wasn't a large effect. > >Is there another monotonous clock in the kernel that doesn't wrap (all > >that often)? Doesn't really need to be wall time. > > clock_gettime() Thank you. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
