Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:44:41 +0000 (UTC) | From | Francois Meyer <> | Subject | Re: Clock inaccuracy seen on NVIDIA nForce2 systems. |
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> The system is running 2.6.9-rc4 and has been up for 2 days. I'm showing > an offset of -32 seconds and growing.
As it has been said, this could be due to just a poor quality crystal. In addition, non temperature- controlled crystals are far more efficient as thermometers than as oscillators, as frequency is directly and more than significantly depending on crystal temperature.
Now if you think there is a real software issue behind your observations, it wont be that easy to distinguish between crystal and soft contributions, unless the specifications of the crystal used on those boards are far better than the drifts you observed.
If the specs are of the same order, I think reliable conclusions can only arise from tests issued on the same physical hardware.
-- Francois Meyer
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