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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!math.fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: clock gains time (or does it loose :-) Date: 2 Jul 1993 17:40:02 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <211rti$27e@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I cannot get rid of the impression that my system's clock (486/33,16MB, XFree86,AH1542A, AT-Ultra/8514) is gaining time, that is, it is running slower and it also seems that this is a function of system load. During several days it was slowing down by one to two hours. I'm doing heavy compiles/ld over NFS. Is this - if it is as it is - a design flaw of 386bsd, that it cannot cope with any interrupt rate at any time? (also a possible cause for the silo overflows?) -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de *** Error code 1 Stop.