[ntp:questions] how do I lock in average frequency correction

Ron Frazier (NTP) timekeepingntplist at c3energy.com
Tue Feb 14 15:50:13 UTC 2012


On 2/14/2012 9:36 AM, unruh wrote:
> On 2012-02-14, Ron Frazier (NTP)<timekeepingntplist at c3energy.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 2/13/2012 3:25 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Chuck Swiger<cswiger at mac.com>   wrote:
>>>        
>> Perhaps a silly question, but, does the "tick" that drives the OS
>> software clock originate from the RTC or from the CPU master clock at 2
>> GHz or whatever?  Just trying to understand how this stuff works.
>>      
> Not clear what thei question has to do with frequency stablizing a xtal,
> but the system clock is linked to the cpu clock.
>
>    

I was simply wondering which crystal is the perpetrator.  I always 
thought the CPU clock was highly accurate.

Ron

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