From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 17 21: 3: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2A211641 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:02:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA05945 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:02:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <016d01be5afb$a73c7180$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Time drift: hardware or software? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:00:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running 3.1-STABLE with a user-ppp connection to the Internet, and I'm running ftpdate from cron every two hours. While I don't get 'calcru minus time' errors, my system clock drifts something fierce--about -110 seconds per hour. Is this hardware related, or is FreeBSD's time counter really off? Can I do anything about it? Dmesg reports that my Pentium-90 processor is running at 87.5 MHz (sometimes 88.something MHz). My system is an old Dell Dimension P90. The Dell web site says this system has no backup battery, so it's not a bad battery problem. I'd love to run xntpd all the time to keep synch'd, but I fear my ISP would freak if I kept a permanent connection active. Any advice is welcome. TIA. --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message