From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 15 7:51:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AB537B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92C9543F93 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 15 Mar 2003 15:51:12 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:51:09 +0000 From: David Malone To: sjh@zorak.net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock running double time Message-ID: <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message