From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 23 3:24: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE8837B401; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:24:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1DB43EDC; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBNBNuu6014675; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:23:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Timing with clock_gettime(2) (sysutils/clockspeed port) From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:04:04 -0200." <20021223110426.2848.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:23:56 +0100 Message-ID: <14674.1040642636@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021223110426.2848.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>, Mario Sergio Fuji kawa Ferreira writes: >"clockspeed uses a hardware tick counter to compensate for a persistently >fast or slow system clock. Given a few time measurements from a reliable >source, it computes and then eliminates the clock skew. Uhm, have you heard about ntpd ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message