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From: scp@acl.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Pope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: NTP and IRIX
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Date: 10 Dec 90 17:09:29 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM
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	I've managed to get NTP running under IRIX 3.3.1/2, and it
works, but not well.  The problem has to do with whatever the IRIX
equivalent of BSD's ``tickadj'' variable is - the quantum is set far
too large, and NTP has a hard time getting the kernel zeroed in on the
correct value to adjtime(2).

	Can anyone out there suggest what is the correct kernel
variable to tweak, and what a reasonable value(s) might be for a 380
and a personal?

	(BTW: looking in /usr/sysgen, it appears that the ``fastclock''
is off, but without adb, who can tell?!?)

stephen pope
advanced computing lab, lanl
scp@acl.lanl.gov