Does the timer patch rely on the CPU timer as an accurate timekeeper? It can slow down due to cycle stealing by I/O activity. But, I'm thinking that no matter how Linux wakes up, it would HAVE to use STCKE to have any hope of keeping accurate time (without NTP). In effect, STCKE would replace NTP's function.
-jcf ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:48 PM 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.
