Not as much a bad hardware clock as a OS related issue. Lets say gettimeofday() uses X ts (time slices) in OS A that counts as a extremely accurate call. If OS B uses 2X-7X ts in a random fashion, could this cause any choke problems?
/Bjorn On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Alfred Reynolds wrote: > In theory as the network system uses the gettimeofday() value to work > out network usage, but you would need a really really bad clock. > > - Alfred > > kama wrote: > > Could this cause choke if the gettimeofday() is really choppy and time > > consuming? > > > > /Bjorn > > > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Alfred Reynolds wrote: > > > >> Both server engines use the gettimeofday() call to work out elpased > >> time. If that time moves significantly during a frame then the next > >> frame will not run properly (you would see a one frame glitch on the > >> server). If your clock is adjusted once per day then this won't be > >> noticable but if your clock is constantly wandering the effects > >> could be > >> seen. > >> > >> - Alfred > >> > >> Erik Hollensbe wrote: > >>> On Jun 4, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Gary wrote: > >>> > >>>> If you are talking about cumulative clock drifting, yes. As far as > >>>> it's interaction to hlds etc, I don't know :) > >>>> I know the quartz is sensitive to temperatures and if it gets too > >>>> warm/BIOS issue, it will drift more. > >>> > >>> Sorry, I meant the daemons. The clock drift isn't the issue, safely > >>> updating the time on the box is. :) > >>> > >>> Hopefully Alfred can chime in on this topic monday. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Erik Hollensbe > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >>> archives, please visit: > >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > >> archives, please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
