[ntp:questions] Re: is there a way to "lock" the drift frequency
Terje Mathisen
terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Sat Nov 15 10:25:21 UTC 2003
wayne wrote:
> In <bp3j44$aut$1 at osl016lin.hda.hydro.com> Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com> writes:
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>>tinker huffpuff 36000
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>>would allow ntpd to 'coast' past up to 10 hours of excessive one-way load.
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> Thanks for the info. I've been using "tinkier huffpuff 7200", and
> that seems to help, but it doesn't seem to cure the problem. It
> certainly doesn't fix the problem with my laptop's APM problem.
:-)
Coasting past periods of widely variable basic cpu frequency is reather
hard, I believe you have to either disable APM, or live with a sawtooth
clock performance.
Terje
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