Subject: Re: Clock drift on Miatas
To: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/28/2000 00:37:43
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:20:46AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> Are there any known problems with clock drift? How about under heavy
> network load?
>
> Do clock interrupts get lost if there is "too much" network traffic?
> Or does xntpd get confused?
There were some changes to various timekeeping routines made at
some point which made this problem go away (courtesy of Bill Sommerfeld).
I don't know if those changes made it into 1.4.x or not.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>