From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 15 9: 0:39 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 0654037B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.43.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12C043FA3 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.ne.attbi.com [127.0.0.1]) by h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2FGw3OM003015; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:58:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc@h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h2FGugVq002979; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:56:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:56:42 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues To: David Malone Cc: sjh@zorak.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock running double time Message-ID: <20030315165642.GA2946@attbi.com> References: <200303150714.h2F7Epqr002441@scotch.ics.uci.edu> <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030315155109.GA11705@walton.maths.tcd.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 03:51:09PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > 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 The correct line to add to /etc/sysctl.conf is: 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. -- Craig Rodrigues http://home.attbi.com/~rodrigc rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message