From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 11 13:57:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B08D37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A0C43E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 24129 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2002 21:57:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2002 21:57:17 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gABLv72D002371; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:57:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1037050487.14529.17.camel@focaccia.> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:57:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Michael A. Mackey" Subject: RE: Extreme time drift in SMP mode Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Nov-2002 Michael A. Mackey wrote: > I have recently installed 5.0-CURRENT onto my AlphaServer 2100A. When > running an SMP kernel, the time drift is very large. > > I am running ntpd, but it doesn't correct the error in system time. > > The only solution: use CRON to run ntpdate (this prevents ntpd from > running) efvery few minutes. This solution is much less than desirable, > as I won;t this box to run kerberos. > > Is there some solution to this problem? Not at the moment. Does the time run too fast or too slow? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message