From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 28 08:02:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03393 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03369 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA13443; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:01:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA03060; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:01:54 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:01:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199803281601.JAA03060@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dennis Cc: Dan Nelson , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting time from bios In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980328105113.00e3b550@etinc.com> References: <3.0.32.19980328105113.00e3b550@etinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> Our servers run rather fast ... > Why do I need to run "yet another deamon" on my servers when I have a > perfectly accurate clock in the machine? Because you don't have a perfectly accurate clock in the machine. :) You can tweak with the settings to try and figure out which timer in the system generates more accurate time. Bruce posted about this a long time ago, so it's probably in the archives. It should be documented somewhere (if it is, it should be documented somewhere more obvious). :) 'man clock' doesn't help me to determine how to make my system clock more accurate.., and LINT has a bunch of: # More undocumented options for linting. options CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP options "CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION" options "CLK_USE_I586_CALIBRATION" But I think they above have something to do with it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message