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Tomas Quintero wrote:

>On 5/4/05, Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up
>>is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i
>>do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ryan
>>    
>>
>
>Have you considered running an ntp service on the box? I run OpenNTPd
>on a few of my systems and it seems to work quite well.
>
>  
>
ntp isn't going to fix a 2x clock problem which is probably hardware
related.

The OP didn't say what hardware or version of FreeBSD so it's kinda hard
to figure out the actual problem.

john