Is it possible from user space to develop a monitoring program that
can compare the CMOS clock to the "jiffy" count of the kernel (from
what I understand this is incremented for every timer interrupt) and
print a message every time there is a "slipage".
I have been working on the ZIP driver for linux, I have a beta driver
(fairly heavy rewrite of most routines). This driver should not disable
interrupts for more than a couple of instructions, I have reports
indicating that PPP is loosing a few bytes due to a lost interrupt
(the actual report indicated that the sound card was also in use).
It would be nice to have such a utility as this will make it easier
to locate the problem.
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David Campbell