At 19:23 10/01/2002, you wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:48:25PM -0700, Don Yuniskis wrote:
>
> > - time server (there be dragons here)
>
>completely unusable unless you want to break out the SMT soldering gear,
>razor, and magnet wire to swap physical interrupt lines.  apple in their
>infinite stuck-in-1984 wisdom decided that the clock interrupt takes
>lowest priority, and if you're getting network traffic or disk I/O, the
>clock interrupt gets starved out and NTP can't really deal with it.

DOH! What kinda screwed up logic is that - would the clock really slow the 
hard disk or network down THAT much?


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Mark Benson