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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!dei.calldei.com!not-for-mail From: dave@dei.calldei.com (David A. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: msql causes time to 'stand still'!!! Date: 27 Feb 1996 14:06:54 -0800 Organization: Dal Enterprises Inc. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <4gvv9u$db@dei.calldei.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.37.1 Keywords: msql bsdi time This is really strange. I'm playing with msql (a mini-sql database) that has a daemon process that is started from /etc/rc.local When I run a query (talks to the daemon process via sockets) time literally stands still ! The query in question takes about 15 seconds to run but date and time say it only takes about .5 seconds! I then resync my clock and all is well ... until the next time I run the query .. Now the strange part, If I kill of the msqld process and restart it exactly with the same command line from /etc/rc (msqld &) then time doesnt stand still anymore when I do queries. Until ... I reboot then it starts over again ! Two obvious questions ... 1) How can any user proc (running as root) cause time to stand still (it does not run settimeofday - I checked the source) 2) If magically a process *can* cause this behaviour, how would it change by killing it and restarting it ? Any suggestions ? I've tried 3 versions of msql all twith the same results. I think this must be a kernal bug but I cant prove it. -David Lee dave@calldei.com -- ------------------------------------- Name: David Lee E-mail: Dave@calldei.com (David Lee) Dal Enterprises Inc. P.O. Box 4032 Felton, CA 95018 Phone: 408-335-6890, Fax: 408-335-6899 WWW: http://www.calldei.com -------------------------------------