Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 22:42:07 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is tickadj still required in -CURRENT ? Message-ID: <7703.907879327@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:37:18 PDT." <199810082037.NAA24112@austin.polstra.com>
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In message <199810082037.NAA24112@austin.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes: >> Uhm, sorry, no longer true, tickadj has nothing what so ever to do >> with what time it is any more... > >Not even on 486 machines? Sorry, I was mistaken then. No, the only place where the length of a "tick" enters the picture is in how fast the adjtime(2) delta is applied, and we're talking second order dependency here, so don't worry, you can't even measure it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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