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Hi,

> Just gettimeofday() produces 8sec time drifting now. No need
> to use poll() in our little programm I sent previously.

And this is a lot more strange ! If we start the gettimeofday() loop
once (on one CPU) I get the timedrift with 8 seconds per minute.

If we start it twice so it runs on both CPU's, there is no
significant timedrift !!!

Something here is cracy.

Martin


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