Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:10:53 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers Message-ID: <20070504171053.41eddb6a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <4639FAB6.9050701@mac.com> References: <20070503014137.I3544@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <a969fbd10705021849g64f4752fobd5b6a817254ba28@mail.gmail.com> <20070503015723.S3544@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <d7195cff0705022217k4f0aaf2fibd2bfeb97b6498c8@mail.gmail.com> <4639FAB6.9050701@mac.com>
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On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer > Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and > handle timekeeping well. > Does that matter? The RTC time is almost immediately overridden by ntpdate. The drift is a systematic error that ntpd allows for. I would have thought that the only significant issue, is whether the system loses timer interrupts under load.
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