Re: clock problems
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote:
> > >From my understanding, the 68k Macs have a habit of losing timer
> > interrupts. This causes the clock to lose a lot of time. I just
> > run ntpd to keep mine on the right time. Of course, that requires
> > a permanent connection via network to something with a more
> > stable clock...
> Under potato, with ntpd running, I was seeing "random" lockups (cursor
> stops blinking, unable to change Virtual Consoles, etc).
> Under woody, with ntpd running, this seems to happen reliably during
> the boot sequence.
>
> I've turned of ntpd on my IIsi, which seems to have solved the problem
> in the "brute force and ignorance" fashion.
IME, ntpd isn't helpful on m68k. The problem is that the clock skew
happens always, but more so under heavy load. As a result, the statistics
that ntpd creates while pulling information from a time server are
completely worthless.
Therefore, I've installed ntpd. With a recent enough kernel (I'm running
2.2.20), that doesn't give you lockups, although I did have some when
running 2.2.10 (but nobody should be running that anymore anyway, right
now).
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