On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:52:40PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> Does anyone out there have sloppy RTC symptoms with NetBSD/pmax?

This is on goldberry, my 5000/240:

goldberry:~$ uname -a
NetBSD goldberry 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (goldberry) #0: Mon May 10 17:16:48 PDT 1999 agrier@goldberry:/usr/local/src/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/goldberry pmax
goldberry:~$ xntpdc -c sysinfo
system peer:          amon.reed.edu
system peer mode:     client
leap indicator:       00
stratum:              3
precision:            -17
root distance:        0.23492 s
root dispersion:      3.77269 s
reference ID:         [134.10.2.10]
reference time:       baf5e9ad.c0bc9000  Tue, May 25 1999 20:31:57.752
system flags:         bclient monitor pll stats kernel_sync 
frequency:            0.000 ppm
stability:            119.721 ppm
broadcastdelay:       0.003906 s
authdelay:            0.000122 s

If my 28.8k PPP connection is quiet, xntpd is very stable.  However, when
I'm home and saturating my connection by supping -current and building
packages, it can become quite unstable, losing synchronization often.
(I need to order DSL soon.)

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