From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 27 08:24:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA01279 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 08:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01254 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 08:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA23534; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:52:11 -0500 Message-Id: <199512271552.KAA23534@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: spooky.rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: ewb@zygaena.com (Will Brown), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock accuracy? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:02:11 +0100." <199512270902.KAA03811@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:52:10 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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