[geeks] NTP on Windows

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Again, with *SNTP*, not NTP.
>
> It steps the clock.  It doesn't slew it.  That's a feature not included
> with SNTP.  These machines are industrial instrumentation and control
> data aggregation boxes in a very large manufacturing plant.  They are
> aggregating data on (sometimes) 1/4 second intervals.

BTDT, and Windows XP is utter crap for that application.  You have my
sympathies.  In order to get any sort of reasonable resolution you have to
ask the scheduler to do all sorts of silly dances, especially on
multiprocessor systems.

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