but why does MacOS never looses seconds even after days of hard activity?
does it update from RTC register every 10 seconds ?!

ric

on 1/10/02 10:37 PM, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@apple.com wrote:

> On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 12:07 PM, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Aaron J. Grier 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.
>