From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 12 8: 7: 1 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 45E2E37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:07:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0166443E77 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@spock.cl) Received: from spock.cl (multia.spock.cl [200.27.125.107]) by aromo.spock.cl (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id gACG7vj13146 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:07:57 -0300 (CLST) Message-ID: <3DD12716.2080506@spock.cl> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:06:46 -0300 From: Roberto de Iriarte User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme time drift in SMP mode References: <15824.15617.29097.140638@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021112170300.A1738@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Wilko Bulte wrote: >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 > > 2100 is Sable, the rarer 2100A is called Lynx > > >>its timecounter. Maybe the 8254 timecounter isn't setup right on >>the 2100a? >> >> >> > > > Regards, Roberto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message