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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:28:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Michael A. Mackey" <michael-mackey@uiowa.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extreme time drift in SMP mode
Message-ID:  <15824.15617.29097.140638@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Michael A. Mackey writes:
 > It takes precisely twice as long (20 seconds) to run `sleep 10`.
 > 
 > Why can't ntpd keep things in line?
 > 

Because its not desgined to fix a clock which is that broken -- it
only increments a second or so at a time.  Far too slow for your
purposes.

Drew

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