Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:52:10 -0500 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ewb@zygaena.com (Will Brown), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock accuracy? Message-ID: <199512271552.KAA23534@spooky.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:02:11 %2B0100." <199512270902.KAA03811@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> If i recall right, the problem was that the 8254 ain't used for the > time-of-day clock on Pentium systems. Instead, some supposed to be as > accurate Pentium-internal timer is being used, but many people > complain about its accuracy. I run xntpd and I have to do: ``tickadj -t 9999'' to get lock on my pentiums. This is suspicious because one has to do this on some Suns and it turns out that it is due to a bug in Sunos misprogramming a clock chip. I wonder if there is a similar bug in FreeBSD for pentiums? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
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