On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, David Boyes wrote:

> 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.
>

You could run ntpdate at regular (if you use cron) or pseudo-regularly
(using a script or atd). Using ntpdate won't be as accurate, but (if run
from a script or atd) won't wake the system up so often.


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Cheers
John.

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