Jan Wieck JanWieck
Thu May 26 21:30:42 PDT 2005
On 5/26/2005 4:19 PM, Vivek Khera wrote:

> On May 26, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> 
>> NTP works quite well even with crappy PC clocks.  I run it on all my
>> servers as a matter of policy.
>>
> 
> It works well with "good" PC clocks (which in the global scheme of  
> things are crappy).  It doesn't work well with a "crappy" PC clock,  
> which I've had once or twice.  NTP just coulnd't keep up with it. :-)

If the clock has a constant speed but is just too fast/slow, ntp does a 
fantastic job. If the clock changes speeds as if it depends on the 
number of pagefaults per second, then ntp has no chance.


Jan

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