Adam Myrow wrote: > It would be interesting to know what kernel version those who are having > trouble with unstable drift in Linux are using. I am using kernel > 2.6.27.7, and it is very stable, varying no more than 5 PPM, even across > reboots. It should be noted that I rebuilt my kernel with the timer > frequency set to 100HZ, and made sure that dynamic ticks was disabled. > This seems to produce the lowest drift values. In an older 2.6 kernel, > I noticed the drift rate jumping all over the place as described. > However, it appears that this may have finally been fixed.
The kernel folks did indicate that they fixed something in this area in 2.6.21 but I don't know any details. I don't know if they fixed this specific issue or something else. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
