Martin Habets:
>
> Plus not all machines have a physical RTC chip.
> If you want periodic interrupt emulation on those you need a patch [1],
> but that just generates a software interrupt. That would suffer from a
> change in HZ value AFAIK.
>
When having a server, you don't have to use /dev/rtc
Plus not all machines have a physical RTC chip.
If you want periodic interrupt emulation on those you need a patch [1],
but that just generates a software interrupt. That would suffer from a
change in HZ value AFAIK.
--
Martin
[1] http://www.mph.eclipse.co.uk/pub/linux/patches/2.6.8/genrtc.c.pat
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 08:33 +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> This is easely solved by setting up a server-system. The clients
> can request an individually frequency to be woken up by, and
> the server will set the interrupt freq high enough to satisfy
> all current connected clients.
>
