[ntp:questions] 500ppm - is it too small?
Terje Mathisen
"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" at ntp.org
Thu May 7 19:49:47 UTC 2009
Hal Murray wrote:
>> An greater than 500 PPM suggests seriously broken hardware!
>
> Or software.
>
Indeed.
This sounds a lot like the trouble many Linux boxes got into with
HZ=1000, where dropped timer ticks could cause all sorts of problems in
the form of unstable systems clocks that seemed to lose a lot more than
500 ppm.
Terje
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