From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 05:25:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E75106566B for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from other@ahhyes.net) Received: from ahhyes.net (srv.ahhyes.net [96.44.168.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12728FC0C for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ahhyes.net) by ahhyes.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1QQuIH-00028t-Gh for freebsd-xen@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 14:41:33 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:41:33 +1000 From: Alex To: Message-ID: X-Sender: other@ahhyes.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: other@ahhyes.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on ahhyes.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Clock drift issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 05:25:53 -0000 Hi Guys, Running 8.2-RELEASE/amd64 as the operating system on my VPS. Every couple of weeks I am finding myself having to log in and resync the clock as it's drifted (I am in Au (GMT+10)). Today again: ---------------------------- srv# date Mon May 30 14:21:16 EST 2011 srv# /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start Setting date via ntp. 30 May 14:37:41 ntpdate[8207]: step time server 203.171.85.237 offset 958.736122 sec srv# date Mon May 30 14:37:43 EST 2011 ----------------------------- Is there any fix for this? Thanks, Alex.