[ntp:questions] Re: ntp client over satellite and no CMOS battery
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.not-this-bit.nor-this-part.uk.invalid
Sun Sep 11 10:30:20 UTC 2005
David Woolley wrote:
> In article <wAQUe.106462$G8.19768 at text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> David J Taylor <> wrrote:
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>> In general, all these last three systems keep within 10-20ms of
>> correct time, and have only been worse than that across a power
>> glitch or across a
>
> My experience is that loaded (S at H) NT systems jitter about 20ms, but
> the same machine running Linux will have 90 percentile offsets around
> 3ms. (My main speculation is that NT will not pre-empt a running
> process until the next clock interrupt.)
I have recently bought the book: Windows Internals (4th edition), which
includes all of this level of detail. I'm fairly certain that a running
process can be pre-empted at any time when a higher priority software or
hardware interrupt arrives, and that Windows isn't limited to just the
times ticks to reschedule processes.
Cheers,
David
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