Subject: Re: Boinc s/w making my machine sluggish like hell...
From: Louis Holleman
Date: 21/08/2005, 19:50
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:34:04 -0400, Roger
<Delete-Invallid.stuff.groups@tm.net> wrote:

I've found that running BOINC 4.45 causes the clocks on the three
machines running BOINC to run slow.  Shut BOINC down and the clocks
keep good time.  I did not have this problem with earlier versions of
BOINC.

The messing with the clocks which I have tied directly to the use of
BOINC 4.45 can really mess with some of the apps.

Roger,

this sounded interesting. Since I'm running this main machine with a
daily clock check from the official German Time Signal source in
Frankfurt I believe, this machine takes a daily check and adjusts the
clock to what it should be. In turn, this machine feeds my LAN with
NTP broadcasts so the other puters keep up.
Looking thru the logs since January 2003, I see no real differences in
where I didn't run Boinc, started with Boinc 4.13 and upgraded to
Boinc 4.45..... During this period the average daily drift has been
4.323 secs.... and apart from some odd values here and there I can
really see no big changes during that period.

Louis