Paul wrote:
> I installed NTP v4.2.7p244 on my Sun SPARC + Solaris 9 system a couple
> of days ago,
> and now I have a message in the NTP log file that I've never seen
> before:
> 
> 30 Dec 05:48:51 xntpd[23840]: ts_min 1325220531.588564214 ts_prev
> 1325220531.588563380 ts 1325220531.588711963
> 30 Dec 05:48:51 xntpd[23840]: sys_fuzz 834 nsec, this fuzz 0.000000136
> 30 Dec 05:48:51 xntpd[23840]: get_systime prev result
> 0xd2a7c133.96b79e2c is 0.000027187 later than 0xd2a7c133.96b5d60b
> 
> Can anybody tell me what the message means?

That's a warning message from get_systime().  Dave Hart can say more,
and I think it means that a *very* slightly later call to get_systime()
managed to come up with a *very* slightly earlier time, based on the
random nature of the "fuzz" that we add below the precision floor.

H
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