Evandro Menezes wrote: > On Jan 25, 8:15 am, Martin Burnicki <martin.burni...@meinberg.de> > wrote: >> >> Yes, it helps indeed ;-) > > I'm glad it does. > > And just for completion, the current generation of AMD processors > derive the CPU clock from the memory controller clock instead of the > FSB. Moreover, the memory controller clock may also be changed on the > fly and is thus subject to power management policies too, effectively > making its TSC not invariant if the memory controller power is > managed. However, I don't know of any OS that does this yet.
Argh, I just began to hope things could become easier in the future. I'm sure the OS maintainers will find a way to fiddle with this to degrade timekeeping ;-) Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions