Le jeu, 16 sep 1999, Ken Wilson a �crit :
>Time drift is not necessarily a bug but a normal fact of life in
>computing. It may be the product of numerous interrupts. The more
>processes you have running over a period of time the more opportunities
>for interrupts to occur, the greater the time drift. That is why timed
>exists, and also utilities that will periodically fetch time from a
>reliable source, i.e. the atomic clock in Boulder, and set the current
>time for the box holding the timed server and serving the rest of the
>network.
Well, something definitely "changed" since I upgraded to Mandrake. I never had
such wide time drifts with RH 5.2. With 4 weeks uptime, my machine is off
by one hour.
I dont't know how to further trace the problem. This is why I am asking the
list.
>
>We are getting into way too much bashing. This thread should really be
>named '6.1 Helios observations (Bug reports the sequel)'. In deference
>to Gael I think we should be 100%, or as close as possible, sure
>something is a bug and not just our own error or failure to get up to
>speed on a process/problem before reporting same.
I am 100% sure of this one. SAME hardware before + the very same daemons
running with RH 5.2=no time drifts. I have now three servers up and running and
they all drift. I do not whish to purchase a serial interface to a radio clock
(which BTW could come more expensive than another distro) until I am resonably
convinced this is not a software glitch.
I am willing to stick with Mandrake, especially since getting used to a new
distro's quirks is somewaht a PITA, as long as I see some issues are being
addressed.
Now how could I tackle this? I could run a cron job to resynch the clock with
the hardware clock, but isn't the whole purpose of the software clock to be
supposedly more precise than the hardware one? Any other (better) ideas?
>
>Maybe we could all drop this thread until we see what the actual release
>turns out like.
I definitely disagree with this. I think we need answers _before_ the new
release if we want it to be better and more stable. Without this, releasing is
just riding an ephemere fashion wave. The "distro of the day" kind of users will
fade away, what remains, is the quality (or lack thereof) of the fixes &
patches.
MK
