At 03:51 PM 4/18/2011, Harlan Stenn wrote...
David wrote:
> Well, if Linux is that badly behaved (altering its clock on each
> boot), I would have said that was an OS defect which needed
> correction, not altering ntpd to accommodate faulty software!
I think, and I am really not sure, that the linux kernel calibrates
its
clock on each boot, and that calibration can be different in the
low-order bit (or few) each time.
Yes, and that's what makes it broken. While it certainly doesn't effect
most users, it does some. At a minimum, there should be a mechanism to
find out what (clock divisors?) the kernel has used for calibration,
and lock them in for use with subsequent boots. Maybe there is, but
after searching for a while, I couldn't find any way to do that.
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