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- From: mccauley@phaeton.asd.sgi.com (Jay McCauley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
- Subject: Re: Adjust CPU Hz by X to Y
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.185254.15383@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:52:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.154202.25663@maths.tcd.ie>
- Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- If there were an FAQ, this should be on it. They're harmless. They
- come from small adjustments made to the clock to keep it in sync.
- To avoid having time go backwards or stop, the clocks are pulled into
- sync by fudging the amount each "tick" is worth. This also works to
- make the clock go forward, you fudge the value upward. The message
- should probably have been made a lower priority so it would get tossed
- by standard syslog configs, but there was a time this was broken and
- we needed the info. (For those with long memories, recall what happened
- on the last Leap Day, YECCH!)
-
- Jay McCauley
- RISC/os Raconteur
-