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Re: multiple processors



On 30-Jul-98 Ira Abramov wrote:

>  ONE caveat though, although it's very stable (I use it for production, so
>  does Dejanews, and don't quote me but I know for a fact that Trasmeta does
>  the same), SMP kernels have a horrible problem with tracking time
>  correctly. make sure you lock your SMP machine to another unix or
>  single-CPU linux box through xntpd (the easiest daemon to configure I
>  know).

I run rdate periodically from cron on the client side. No need to use any
special daemon (neither on the reference box).

Regards,

Evgeny

PS. I use SMP for more than 1.5 year, both at home and at work. Lately (since
2.0.33) it's very stable.

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