Re: gettimeofday non-monotonic on 2.2.7 SMP

Andre Johansen (andrej@funcom.com)
19 May 1999 10:18:44 +0200


* dave madden wrote:
| I know multiple processors are relatively rare, but hasn't *somebody*
| else noticed the ill effects of gettimeofday returning earlier times?

We have seen the same problem here throughout the 2.2 series on a dual
PII machine. In our program, time sometimes jump several seconds
backwards.

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