on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:34:17PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear insinuated: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > over the past few days, i've noticed that my system clock gets about > > ten to fifteen minutes slow over the course of a day. this is really > > weird! i've been using ntpdate to synchronize it with a timeserver > > whenever i notice it, and i put it in a once-a-day cron job, but i > > want my system to ALWAYS be on time. i'm confused as to what's > > causing this, and how i can fix it. any ideas? > > Perhaps your PIT is going south? (PIT = Programmable Interval Timer, > a variable-frequency timer usually set to 100HZ by Linux.)
so, Tom seems to think it's not (which is good), but what is this PIT,
and where does it live? hardware? which?
> I'd take the easy way out and turn ntpdate into a minutely job.
yeah, could do that ... i feel like that's cheating, though :)
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