On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 12:07 PM, David A. Gatwood wrote:

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> On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 06:48:25PM -0700, Don Yuniskis wrote:
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> - time server (there be dragons here)
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> 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.

Sorry about the broken attribution there.  Our mail relay is acting up 
and I had to send this by manually pasting it into a "telnet relayhost 
25" session.  :-)


David