Subject: Re: Clock drift on Miatas
To: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/28/2000 00:37:43
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:20:46AM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:

 > Are there any known problems with clock drift?  How about under heavy 
 > network load?
 > 
 > Do clock interrupts get lost if there is "too much" network traffic?
 > Or does xntpd get confused?

There were some changes to various timekeeping routines made at
some point which made this problem go away (courtesy of Bill Sommerfeld).

I don't know if those changes made it into 1.4.x or not.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>