Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:26:41 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC] New Time of day proposal (updated 9/2/04) |
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On 7 Sep 2004 at 11:24, George Anzinger wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote: ... > > I thought the NTP daemon etc would even that out? ITC (TSC on IA64) is > > used by default on IA64 for all time keeping purposes. The CPU has on chip > > support for timer interrupt generation. > > Yes, and it is designed (read the "rock" is carefully choosen) for time keeping.
Believe me: NTP cannot repair a broken clock; it can only "tune" a clock that is systematically off.
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Regards, Ulrich
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