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Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!



On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:46:34 -0800 (PST)
Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:

> 
> I had somene run:
> 
>   date; burn-cd.sh; date
> 
> and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a
> CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds.
> 
> Maybe it's because the CD-R is so fast?  "Let's do the time warp again!"

This is why I installed rdate, I think it is b/c it is so processor intensive (CD-R).  I didn't read the entire previous thread on ntp, but rdate at least does the trick for my single user system.

Shawn

> 
> They are running testing with 2.4.18 and xfs file system.
> 
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Shawn Lamson
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0



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