Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:44:01 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware Message-ID: <86zl1v84vy.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4BACC791.70502@icyb.net.ua> (Andriy Gapon's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:41:21 %2B0200") References: <4BACC791.70502@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> writes: > What do you think about the following patch or something similar? I've wondered for years why we didn't already do this. > Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). Why? Although I can see an argument for a sysctl to turn it on or off. IIRC, Linux saves the clock at shutdown, and every 11 minutes if and only if the system clock is synchronized to an external reference. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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