Subject: Re: clock accuracy
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From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/22/1999 01:18:45
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:53:01 +0900, KITAMURA Yasuichi wrote:
> > I installed 1.3.3 on my SE/30 and it works very well except one point. The 
> > issue is the clock or time accuracy. The clock of the SE/30 is as accurate 

> This is a long-standing known problem, due to the hardware design
> decision Apple engineers took.  Basically, the clock interrupt does
> not have the priority high enough to keep the time accurate.  This is
> a problem seen only on the mac68k port and not on the others AFAIK.

my experience has certainly been that its only a mac68k issue.  It works
fine with i386 and pmax (the only others I've tried XNTP on).

I end up having cron call 'ntpdate' periodically.

-Dan