[time-nuts] wifi with time sync

[David]

Modern systems are very aggressive about DVFS (dynamic voltage and
frequency scaling) so it would not surprise me at all.  I have run
across this problem on the timescale of one second even on 10 year old
desktop hardware.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:32:56 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>I’d be surprised if a laptop running on wall power and doing a variety of low level
>traffic every second is throttling the chip set. It *is* doing something weird and 
>that certainly is one candidate. I’m not quite as concerned with the *why* the bumps 
>occur (though I am curious). I’m more interested in the fact that they are really
>enormous (compared to other delays). How they do microsecond timing with them
>in the mix is the big question. 
>
>Bob