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- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: xntpd won't synch to local clock
- Message-ID: <9207210422.AA03585@mother.intellection.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 04:22:05 GMT
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- Your problem is due to the fact that you are running xntp ona a
- multiprocessor sun. For some reasons the multi cpu suns send loose
- interrupts under SunOS 4.1.2.
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- An xntpd configured identically on a SPARCstation 2 running 4.1.1
- seems to behave just the same. I am more suspicious that there is a
- problem with my boot file or a problem in version 3 with the local
- clock driver.
-
- I'm also unsure how "loose" (i.e., spurious?) interrupts would affect
- the local clock driver. The driver doesn't appear to perform any I/O
- to the system clock which would be interfered with by spurious
- interrupts. It simply calls gettimeofday().
-
- peace. -- Ed
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