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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:48:16 -0500 (EST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Extreme time drift in SMP mode
Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org,
	"Michael A. Mackey" <michael-mackey@uiowa.edu>
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On 11-Nov-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> 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.

So the clock is running at half-speed now?  Hmm, the 2100[A] are
Tincup, not Turbolaser, right?  So it should be using the i8254 for
its timecounter.  Maybe the 8254 timecounter isn't setup right on
the 2100a?

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