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From: ake@cs.umu.se (]ke Sandgren)
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Subject: Re:  need help with ntpd
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.064935.9505@cs.umu.se>
Date: 22 Mar 91 06:49:35 GMT
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In article <9103210740.AA04434@es.ele.tue.nl> gjalt@es.ele.tue.nl (Gjalt de Jong AIO) writes:
>
>on Wed, 20 Mar 91 08:10:51 HST,
>bob@kahala.soest.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) said:
>
>
>> Alliant machines have strange Unix kernels due to their multiprocessing
>> configurations (two different types of cpus; an FX machine can have
>> several of each).  In brief, ntpd from the ntp.3.4 distribution just
>> doesn't work (nor ntpd from any previous distribution).  Nor xntpd.  A
>> ...
>How strange. We have xntpd running on our Alliant FX/8 without any problems.
>No compilation problems and it also runs fine.

And we are running it (xntpd) on our FX/2808 also without problems.
It works like a charm at precision -7, maxskew 0.015 which keeps it at
approx 1-2 ms off of the stratum 2 machine we sync with.
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