Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 14:07:29 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> Subject: Re: Clock running fast Message-ID: <20050504210729.GA9758@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050504154906.4311e370@209.152.117.178> References: <42792740.3040501@houston.rr.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20050504154906.4311e370@209.152.117.178>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0500, W. D. wrote: > At 14:49 5/4/2005, Ryan Winograd, wrote: > >Hi all, > >I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up= =20 > >is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i= =20 > >do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful? >=20 > http://www.Google.com/search?q=3Dinstall+ntp+on+FreeBSD Unfortunately ntp will not always help in these situations, because the time is changing too quickly/slowly to keep up with. The OP should check whether changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to one of the other values listed in kern.timecounter.choice will fix the problem (they are ranked in order of quality). Also look for a BIOS update for your system - that may fix it. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCeTmQWry0BWjoQKURApLyAKCovKhXjb3VvaFIZUNXcmGypC7AFQCgxTlg RNAfcTmF6czs4yl1nmywPDg= =vMSO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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