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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Liangchen Zheng <zlc@dream.eng.uci.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The values of gettimeofday() jumps.
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 21:36:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117330593.5423.108.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000201c563ee$eed993d0$85a4c380@dream.eng.uci.edu>

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 18:37 -0700, Liangchen Zheng wrote:
> Hello,
> 	We have several SMP machines (Tyan Tiger MPX motherboard, 2
> AthlonMP 1900+ CPU, linux-2.4.21-20.EL).  When running some time
> sensitive programs, I observed that the values of gettimeofday () jumped
> sometimes on a couple of machines (other machines are fine), from
> several hundreds milliseconds to a couple of seconds. 

Are you running NTP on those machines by any chance?

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-29  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-28 23:17 [patch 5/7] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking (drivers_net_wan_Kconfig) domen
2005-05-29  1:37 ` The values of gettimeofday() jumps Liangchen Zheng
2005-05-29  1:36   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-29  7:42   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02  1:18     ` Liangchen Zheng
2005-05-30  9:55   ` P
     [not found] <1117332028.11397.1.camel@mindpipe>
2005-05-31 21:59 ` Liangchen Zheng

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