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RE: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin
> On 2023-12-13 02:51, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2023-12-13 11:46, Josh Moyer wrote:
>> port-vax/56383: KA630 slow clock drift
>> For those doing compiles or other high load jobs (and
>> not just on KA630), keep an eye on your clock drift. Clock
>> accuracy seems significantly improved in 10.0_RC1 - although it's
>> still not perfect. Make sure you aren't wasting cycles and masking
>> the problem by running ntpd.
>
> Are you saying that we loose interrupts? Basically, we are running
> for longer periods with interrupts blocked? That sounds both like a
> serious bug, and something that should be fairly easy to detect, no?
I don't know the root cause, but interrupts seem possibly likely.
Would that also lead to the terrible accuracy of top and the cpu
usage statistics?
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