From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 8:11:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 797EE37B42C for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 24706 invoked by uid 1000); 23 May 2001 15:11:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:11:44 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: Vivek Khera Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to improve a bad timekeeper Message-ID: <20010523101144.C6091@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <15115.53325.566433.473253@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15115.53325.566433.473253@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kcilink.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:59:25AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have one 4.3-STABLE box that is a really bad timekeeper. ntpd has > a hard time keeping it in line. Often offset is high, and I see > loss of synchronization frequently. > > I've tried the following to work around the bad timekeeping:... > > Still, the time is offset about between 0.7 and 1.4 seconds from the > two ntp servers to which I synchronize (both on my network)... How much drift is this? Is it off by 0.7..1.4 seconds per year? day? hour? > Are there any other things I can try to get this machine to keep > better time? http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message