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Subject: Re: Clock running fast
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Charles Swiger wrote:

> On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> Try changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl; you can look at the 
> available choices via:
>
>      sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
>

Thanks for all the advice everyone. The solution was changing the 
kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to i8254 (was ACPI-safe). I was using 
NTP, but when the clock is at 2x even having cron run ntp every minute 
is too innacurate.

Thx again!
Ryan