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

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karl Denninger writes:
: 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!

WRONG.  

: 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.

We have hardware timers that let us get into the pico second range on
a regular basis.

Warner


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