"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> On an Intel Linux 2.4.18 I get them quite often, 25 in 1'45", but they
> are all just a microsecond.
>>
>> What do you mean by "just a microsecond"?
> I mean it's always a "out of order tv_usec..." line and the difference is
> 1us. That is a.out gives:
> out of order tv_usec: 1070065862 374978, prev 1070065862 374979
> out of order tv_usec: 1070065867 814300, prev 1070065867 814301
Fascinating. I'd call that a bug too, but evidently one with a
different mechanism than the BSD issue we are chasing.
FWIW, I have not seen any failures in a fair amount of runtime on
a 2.4.18 (Red Hat 8.0) kernel here, running on a Dell P4. What is
the hardware platform you're using?
regards, tom lane