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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
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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?)

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--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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