On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote: > > >From my understanding, the 68k Macs have a habit of losing timer > > interrupts. This causes the clock to lose a lot of time. I just > > run ntpd to keep mine on the right time. Of course, that requires > > a permanent connection via network to something with a more > > stable clock... > Under potato, with ntpd running, I was seeing "random" lockups (cursor > stops blinking, unable to change Virtual Consoles, etc). > Under woody, with ntpd running, this seems to happen reliably during > the boot sequence. > > I've turned of ntpd on my IIsi, which seems to have solved the problem > in the "brute force and ignorance" fashion.
IME, ntpd isn't helpful on m68k. The problem is that the clock skew happens always, but more so under heavy load. As a result, the statistics that ntpd creates while pulling information from a time server are completely worthless. Therefore, I've installed ntpd. With a recent enough kernel (I'm running 2.2.20), that doesn't give you lockups, although I did have some when running 2.2.10 (but nobody should be running that anymore anyway, right now). -- wouter at grep dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- From the movie "Antitrust"
