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Date:      Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:51:09 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        sjh@zorak.net
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Clock running double time
Message-ID:  <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu>
References:  <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu>

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:14:51PM -0800, sjh@zorak.net wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen this?  My clock is running double time, that is,
> each second it advances two seconds.  Needless to say, ntpd can't sync
> up with any servers.

You almost certainly have a motherboard with bad ACPI (probably
for with a K6 processor). Try adding:

	kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC

to /etc/sysctl.conf and rebooting. This has been reported several
times now, I wonder if we should add it to the FAQ?

	David.

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