Crazy clock

Atte Peltomaki koston at iki.fi
Mon Dec 6 11:08:15 PST 2004


> :Well, well. It seems the TIMER_USE_1 option in the kernel has made the
> :clock a lot more stable! I only got a half a second offset in a 5min
> :waiting period between ntpdate's. Before it was around few hundred ;)
> :
> :I'll keep running this for a while and see how it goes.
> :
> :
> :-Atte
> 
>     This should only make a difference if your kernel is also printing
>     out warnings about the BIOS messing with the timer.... assuming you
>     are running a recent kernel.  Both timers run off the same clock.

I rebooted with boot -v, clock seems to keep itself fine but I still
can't see anything in dmesg after 15mins on. 


-Atte





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