From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 8 2:39: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from europa.salford.ac.uk (europa.salford.ac.uk [146.87.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C88B14C28 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 02:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 29364 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 1999 09:37:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 29358 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1999 09:37:01 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by europa.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 8 Apr 1999 09:37:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 27750 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 1999 09:37:00 -0000 Delivered-To: catchall-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: (qmail 27732 invoked by uid 141); 8 Apr 1999 09:36:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:36:59 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Real time clock problem in 3.1-STABLE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Installed 3.1-STABLE on an Apricot Shogun server. xntpd wouldn't sync time correctly though. I set it up just as I do on any other machine. However, on the same machine RedHat 5.2 can sync the time just fine. FreeBSD had problems both before and after the recent kernel clock mods. I notice that with 3.1-S looking at the clocks at boot up, it would appear that over 40 reboots, the TSC clock has varied from 126668897 to 132002659, a variance of almost 5%. Is this normal? Whereas when Linux boots up the variance in processor clock speed is only about 1000Hz. Could this be causing the time problems, and if so is there anyway I can fiddle with tickadj or something to let xntpd work on this machine? Unfortunately I'm going to have to go with Linux on this machine if 3.1-S can't sync the time correctly. Anyone help? Cheers. Mark Powell - System Administrator (UNIX) - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message