Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

[Karl Denninger]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:32:00PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karl Denninger writes:
> : Why spend twice what Mr. Schwartz seems to want to charge?
> 
> Because we need a PPS that is < 10nS from the true start of second for 
> our application?  1uS is really really bad for the timing geeks in the 
> audience.
> 
> Warner

And on what hardware do you think you can obtain 10ns resolution RELIABLY 
at the software level in the Unix environment and under FreeBSD?

Answer: NONE!

The actual usable resolution of a timing source is determined by the 
maximum slop in ANY part of the complete system.

I challenge you to get actual REPEATABLE 10ns results while a multi-tasking
anything is running on the recipient of that data.

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