Stupid question: Why doesn't Linux just use an STCK(E) instruction and use the TOD clock? Just too difficult to patch and non-portable?
-- John McKown Senior Technical Specialist UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux time/date getting skewed > > > I'll assume you're not running NTP for the obvious reason that it > negates the timer patch benefit, but we've seen some relationship to > frequency of disk I/O and network I/O to how bad the timekeeping > becomes. I haven't been able to pin it down either. > > The short cut fix is to enable NTP. The longer term fix is to > determine > what's stalling the clock during I/O. > > -- db > > David Boyes > Sine Nomine Associates
