re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

> Did anybody properly try VMS on simh? If that fails to keep time
> corrently, surely it's not the operating system (VMS) at fault, but the
> emulator.
>
> I gave it a quick try myself (i.e. not properly) and it seemed like the
> VMS clock was running at around half speed. Maybe that is that "50%
> effect" that was mentioned earlier? I'm running simh on NetBSD/amd64 9.3
> with the default HZ=100, not HZ=1000.

unfortunately, we have a known issue hosting VMs on machines
with the same or near HZ values.  i've built my VM hosting
systems with HZ=256 for the last year or so and it helps a lot.


.mrg.