Hello,
While it's unlikely that I will soon get to build such an instrument, I
am quite interested in how they are built, if only to understand what
can happen and why. Can you suggest some articles and/or books and/or
patents delving into both the theory and the practicalities of building
I came across the following page:
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/known.php
which says the following on ntpd:
By default, the ntp time synchronization daemon will wake up once per
second, and will make the kernel do work on it's behalf even more. Red
Hat has created a patch to ntp
Jan,
A timer interrupt is required each second to update the clock frequency
no matter what. In addition, a sweep is made through the associations to
see if a poll is pending. It would be in principle posssible to
implement a system of queues to avopid sweeping the associations each
second,
David L. Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jan,
A timer interrupt is required each second to update the clock frequency
no matter what. In addition, a sweep is made through the associations to
I thought that the ntp daemon runs the per second routine only if the
kernel discipline is not
