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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:03:00 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
	freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG,
	"Michael A. Mackey" <michael-mackey@uiowa.edu>
Subject: Re: Extreme time drift in SMP mode
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:48:16AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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

Sable. Tincup is the AS1200. Tlaser is AS8[24]00

> its timecounter.  Maybe the 8254 timecounter isn't setup right on
> the 2100a?
> 

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