From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 13 00:02:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0E21065672 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:02:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlj@peak.org) Received: from mailscanner1.peak.org (mailscanner1.peak.org [69.59.192.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62608FC14 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (mail01.peak.org [69.59.192.41]) by mailscanner1.peak.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nBD02QUV009855 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:02:26 -0800 Received: from cjlinux.localnet (dialup-4.255.65.21.Dial1.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.255.65.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by peak-mail-gateway.peak.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id nBD02M61034222 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:02:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlj by cjlinux.localnet with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJbrK-0000nE-QG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:58:46 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B23CD8A.50203@webtent.com> <20091212175949.GB3084@ozzmosis.com> <4B23DED5.3010308@webtent.net> From: Carl Johnson Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:58:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4B23DED5.3010308@webtent.net> (Robert Fitzpatrick's message of "Sat\, 12 Dec 2009 13\:20\:05 -0500") Message-ID: <87aaxnn3rd.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-ID: nBD02QUV009855 X-mailscanner1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.573, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.03, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-mailscanner1-MailScanner-From: carlj@peak.org X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:02:38 -0000 Robert Fitzpatrick writes: > On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: >> On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (robert@webtent.com) wrote: >> >> >>> pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf >>> kern.ipc.semmni=32 >>> kern.ipc.semmns=512 >>> hint.apic.0.disabled=1 >>> >> According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format: >> >> kern.ipc.semmni="32" >> kern.ipc.semmns="512" >> hint.apic.0.disabled="1" >> >> I don't know if this matters. >> >> I'm not sure hint.apic.0.disabled is valid for 7.2. sysctl -a doesn't >> list this variable on my machine. Maybe it's only available on some >> machines. >> >> >>> The only way I'm able to keep the clock up to date is to sync with >>> an Internet time server regularly. Anyone have an idea how fix this >>> issue? >>> >> Can you use ntpd? >> >> Regards >> Andrew >> > > I'm pulling from a time server now every hour, keeps it from getting > behind too much. Perhaps that is what I'll end up doing, loading the > ntp server, I guess that would keep it up to date better? Thanks. If it is consistently off by a certain amount, then you might want to look into /usr/sbin/ntptime to set a frequency offset. If it works, then you can put it into somewhere like /etc/rc.local. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org