I may be wrong but I think it's more generic than burning CD's. I've heard it's related to SCSI drives. Just hearsay. Throw it into the mix...
alan -----Original Message----- From: Ken Irving [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Irving Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 1:33 AM To: Bill Moseley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT! On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:14:32PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > ... > > The other possibility, brought up by someone on this list, is that that > machine is used for burning CDs and that may cause the clock to get slow. > I have not check this, though. I'll second that warning, as I saw just that behavior on a time-critical system. Yes, it's dumb to be running such processes on a workstation, and I'm currently fixing that, but I'm satisfied that burning CDs can drastically slow the clock. The last time it happened I easily made the connection between the CD burn operation and ntpdate's actions, but the first time I had no idea, panicked, and replaced ntpd with ntpdate. After reading this thread I'll go back to ntpd. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
