adjtimex() and tickadj

Ulrich Windl (ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:13:27 +0200


Hello,

somebody wanted to be able to change tickadj via adjtimex(). As this
is really no big affair, I wanted to ask for opinions.

The current value, 500/HZ, corrects 0.5ms per second. With some
phantasy values up to 500000/HZ are thinkable. Some popular kernels
use about 600 (60000/HZ).

Increasing tickadj will make the time change faster. Precision
adjustments should be unaffected.

Ulrich
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