From: "Michèl Alexandre Salim" <salimma1@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:58:48 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010612205848.20245.qmail@web3505.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b74b9ddb0369@[192.168.239.105]>
--- Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org> wrote: >
>> clock drift of a few minutes per day.
>
> That's about 0.1%. It may be relatively large
> compared to tolerances of
> hardware clocks, but it's realistically tiny. It
> certainly compares
> favourably with mkLinux on my PowerBook 5300, which
> usually drifts by
> several hours per day regardless of actual load.
Several hours a day, gosh...
Thanks for the responses, is it a common problem in
notebooks then? Did not notice this on desktops
before, anyway trying to adjust for the drift using
adjtimex now.
Regards,
Michel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-12 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-11 11:36 Clock drift on Transmeta Crusoe Michèl Alexandre Salim
2001-06-11 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-12 16:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 21:00 ` Michèl Alexandre Salim
2001-06-12 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-12 10:26 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-12 20:58 ` Michèl Alexandre Salim [this message]
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