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Re: kern/53016: Clock not stable
The following reply was made to PR kern/53016; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/53016: Clock not stable
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 05:45:24 -0000 (UTC)
kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:
> That's 2 secs/hour, or 1/1800 which is more than ntp can fix by adjusting.
In his tests he said the deviation was 3ms per minute, or 180ms per hour.
> I suspect that the system needs to switch to using some other clock source
> than the one it is picking by default.
He already mentioned the deviations for all clock sources. 'lapic' and
also 'clockinterrupt' were bad. The rest looked like an average PC that
is not kept in sync by ntpd.
That doesn't mean that the default clock source (TSC) has no problem
on the Xeon X3430. In particular, TSC can behave nice during a test
but different when the system is unobserved for 10 hours. But
things like hpet0, ACPI-FAST or i8254 should be sane because they
are independent of the CPU and NetBSD6.1 didn't have problems keeping
time.
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Michael van Elst
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