Well if I'm right he's talking about either adjusting to a nonstandard tick source which happens either with a nonstandart cpu, bios chip, or an atomic clock. If its a teir 1 (atomic clock) source the ntp documentaion covers this but if its a nonstandard cpu that's an other thing. However ther is a third possibility and that is with subsecond real time acuracy applications running on a fully virtualized VM that utilize the hardware clock in that case its a bad use of virtualization that won't work properly for a long list of reasons, and no amount of tuning will fix that. These apps are common in financial it and even vmware will tell you not to use esx for them if you are clear on the fact that you expect sub second acuracy. On Oct 3, 2012 7:25 PM, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:09 AM, g <[email protected]> wrote: > > greetings. > > > > in unix, there is a file, name of which i do not recall, used as a > > 'clock factor' and controls the 'tick rate' for the system clock. > > I assume you mean what' in the the NTP system, in the xntp or ntp > packages, and it's usually called 'ntp.drift'. Location can vary with > the operating system, but running 'find /etc/ -name ntp.drift' should > find it on your's if you've installed the relevant software. > > > > is such a file used in scientific linux and what is it's name? > > > > tia. > > > > -- > > > > peace out. > > > > tc.hago, > > > > g > > . > > > > *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* > > > > **** > > in a free world without fences, who needs gates. > > ** > > help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. > > ** > > to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. > > to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. > > ** > > The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. > > So I installed Linux. > > ** > > learn linux: > > 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html > > 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ > > 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html > > 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ > > **** > > >
