[time-nuts] CPU frequency and NTP crazyness.

[Eric Fort]

the bios lists them as power saving or "green" features.  they will not
reference speed directly.  try disabling anything that remotely implies
power saving.  The best solution I know of though is to use linux as an ntp
server and set a fixed processor speed directly.

-Eric

On 1/5/08, Ryan <ryanbytes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I got a chance to look at the bios today and saw no features that
> would change the cpu speed as some type of power save feature. I did
> discover that Seti doesn't start processing for a little while after a
> restart so I had to switch my imperfect solution to my offset problems
> to use Folding at Home.
>
> On 1/4/08, Ryan <ryanbytes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had an interesting result. I downloaded RMclock and with Seti at Home
> > running the CPU was at full load and speed. I stopped Seti and the
> > load dropped to almost nothing but the speed stayed the same. After
> > about a minute the offset and jitter readings went through the roof.
> > My offsets were above half a second! There was no reduction in
> > anything CPU related while this happened. When I get access to the
> > machine I'll take a look at the bios settings to make sure I have the
> > power settings in an optimal configuration.
>
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