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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!dietrich
- From: dietrich@dxcern.cern.ch (Dietrich Wiegandt)
- Subject: Load dependent clock slowdown
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152957.26956@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Summary: Clock slowdown on moderately loaded DEC5900
- Keywords: ULTRIX 4.3, hardware clock, ntp
- Reply-To: dietrich@dxcern.cern.ch
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:29:57 GMT
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- Hello,
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- we observe a load dependent clock slowdown on our DEC5900 running ULTRIX 4.3.
- The clock is synchronized once per day (at 00:05) by contacting a time server
- using ntp and the result is logged.
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- The observation is that after a normal working day the clock can be more than
- a minute late (load factors may rise to about 30 for short periods of time
- and there are often more than 100 simultaneous sessions)
- but during the weekend the clock is fast by fractions of a second.
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- Has anybody else noted a similar behaviour? What is the cause of this slowdown?
- In principle the clock interrupt should have quite a high priority and not be
- held up for extended periods of time by peripheral activities. There are some
- 13 disks, mainly RZ57s plus some RZ58s, on the machine.
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- We have recently upgraded to ULTRIX4.3 + CAM, but the behaviour was similar
- before under ULTRIX4.2A and (then) standard SCSI.
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- Any hints are welcome.
-
- Dietrich Wiegandt
- CERN Computing and Networks Division
- CH-1211 Geneve 23
- Switzerland
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