Subject: Re: serial port silo overflow repair
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/29/1997 02:04:37
Sounds like the pmax port is pretty clean, interrupt-latency wise.
Here are some additional data points:
----- chronos.clock.org ----- Sun 3/60 (NetBSD-current)
offset: -0.004284 s
frequency: 12.014 ppm
poll adjust: 30
watchdog timer: 689 s
----- solar.clock.org ----- SPARCstation 2 (SunOS 4.1.4)
offset: 0.001198 s
frequency: 7.310 ppm
poll adjust: 0
watchdog timer: 13 s
----- digital.clock.org ----- SPARCstation LX (NetBSD-current)
offset: -0.000544 s
frequency: 53.935 ppm
poll adjust: 12
watchdog timer: 12 s
----- atomic.clock.org ----- SPARCstation Classic (NetBSD-current)
offset: -0.000759 s
frequency: 73.927 ppm
poll adjust: -18
watchdog timer: 42 s
----- cesium.clock.org ----- SPARCstation LX (NetBSD-current)
offset: -0.000472 s
frequency: 83.486 ppm
poll adjust: 24
watchdog timer: 19 s
Offhand, I'd say that NetBSD/SPARC on sun4m needs some help. That, or the
clock hardware in those sun4m systems is just ten times worse than its
predecessors in the Sun 3 and sun4c. I suppose that I ought to run
NetBSD-current on the SS2 for a week or so just to see if the problem is sun4m
specific, or endemic to the SPARC.
No Macintoshes running NetBSD here yet, but I have high hopes for
NetBSD/PowerPC one of these days...
Erik E. Fair fair@clock.org