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It seems my DEC Alpha won get synchronized. Whats the problem?

April 26, 2017dec alpha problem synchronized

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It seems my DEC Alpha won get synchronized. Whats the problem?

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(According to John Sager) The interrupt frequency for DEC Alpha is 1024Hz. According to Section 3.2 the value of tick is 977s. Unfortunately 1024*977 is 1000448, giving an intrinsic frequency error of 448PPM, even for a perfect crystal.[3] As not all versions of the Linux kernel and of NTP daemons can handle such a large frequency error, there may be a problem. Watch out whether your frequency seems to get stuck at some magical value (See Section 8.1). Trying the latest versions might help.