David, David Woolley wrote: [...] > (Linux is OK for a dedicated server, although it can lose clock > ticks if it is doing other things that require disk I/O.)
I don't know why this is posted continuously here. Of course there may have been Linux kernel versions which came with certain drivers which caused the kernel to lose clock ticks. However, this is not a generic Linux Problem. In the past I've also seen other operating systems which came with drivers which had interrupts disabled for too long. In most cases it was due to IDE disk drivers which had been improperly implemented. There have always been updated versions of those drivers which fixed those problems. We all know that bugs can be introduced if a piece of software continues to be developed, this is even the case with ntpd ;-) I'm running ntpd on a bunch of Linux machines with different kernel versions without such problems. Maybe the fact that problems are more often reported under Linux is just due to the fact (I guess) there are much more installations of Linux rather than FreeBSD. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
