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Re: gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-29T01:19:00Z
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:

> I've been running this code on a pair of FreeBSD (i386) boxen, for some time
> now, one of which is a 4.8-STABLE, the other is a 5.2-BETA.
>
> In 10 minutes of execution the 4.8 box has only shown the following:
>
> out of order tv_sec: 1070063393 115226, prev 1070063391 381087
> out of order tv_usec: 1070063393 115226, prev 1070063391 381087

I'm suspecting that the issue is amplified by load on the server itself
...

> the 5.2 box, hasn't outputed anything.  I'm goignt o run this test on
> some other boxen I have and see what/ifany results are happening.

Similar results here with a 5.2 box ...