alternate system clock has died

From: Stijn Hoop (stijn_at_win.tue.nl)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Hi,

    I'm getting the message in the subject when I run systat -vm on a lightly
    loaded server. Top shows interesting CPU usage %:

    CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle

    Some Googling tells me that a fix for this went in around 1998 in
    sys/i386/isa/clock.c, see

    http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/159/1998/7/0/777198/

    (fix verified to be present in RELENG_4_8 which is what the machine is running).

    Since I'm the only one with this problem I'm assuming some hardware clock has
    died, but now I'm trying to find out which one exactly. Could this have to do
    with the battery-backed CMOS clock? If so how can I know for sure that that
    isn't working right?

    More information available on request.

    --Stijn 

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