On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:14:38AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew
P. Lentvorski, Jr. writes:
An $8.00 wristwatch has much better time accuracy that your multi-$100 PC.
That's because the crystal in your wristwatch is cut specially so that it
has a
Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have one machine which failes to keep decent time with ACPI enabled,
but it's more like .5sec/sec. Disabling ACPI fixed that machine (it's
an old thin client so I don't care if it stops being supported at some
point).
You don't need to disable ACPI
In the last episode (Mar 12), Poul-Henning Kamp said:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew
P. Lentvorski, Jr. writes:
An $8.00 wristwatch has much better time accuracy that your multi-$100 PC.
That's because the crystal in your wristwatch is cut specially so that it
has a flat temp-co at
I'm getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current boxes. My home
firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every hour. My desktop machine drifted
~350 seconds over the last 5 days.
Anyone else seeing this?
James.
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:50:25PM -0800, James Satterfield wrote:
I'm getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current
boxes. My home firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every
hour. My desktop machine drifted ~350 seconds over the last 5 days.
Anyone else seeing
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, James Satterfield wrote:
I'm getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current boxes.
My home firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every hour. My
desktop machine drifted ~350 seconds over the last 5 days.
.42 s/ 1 hr is about 116 ppm stability
350
getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current boxes.
My home firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every hour. My
desktop machine drifted ~350 seconds over the last 5 days.
.42 s/ 1 hr is about 116 ppm stability
350 s/ 5 days is about 810 ppm stability
116 ppm
James Satterfield wrote:
I guess I've just never paid that much attention to the clock. I think it's t
ime for me to get a real clock and setup an NTP server.
Thanks.
James.
One of my gate boxes drifts about 11.5 sec a day. I use rdist to
keep all my hosts at each site in sync - vital for
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew
P. Lentvorski, Jr. writes:
An $8.00 wristwatch has much better time accuracy that your multi-$100 PC.
That's because the crystal in your wristwatch is cut specially so that it
has a flat temp-co at about 23-16 C, whereas the xtal in your computer
is has a
