From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 11 15:28:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F05537B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:28:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A366843E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07004; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:28:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gABNS1n48426; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:28:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15824.15617.29097.140638@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:28:01 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael A. Mackey" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extreme time drift in SMP mode In-Reply-To: <1037056691.26905.7.camel@focaccia.> References: <1037050487.14529.17.camel@focaccia.> <15824.10302.110339.545856@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1037053307.14529.24.camel@focaccia.> <15824.11904.925794.589053@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <1037056691.26905.7.camel@focaccia.> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael A. Mackey writes: > It takes precisely twice as long (20 seconds) to run `sleep 10`. > > Why can't ntpd keep things in line? > Because its not desgined to fix a clock which is that broken -- it only increments a second or so at a time. Far too slow for your purposes. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message