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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:08:29 -0800
From:      Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        danfe@nsu.ru, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4
Message-ID:  <06EFEE70-4BB4-41D2-BC30-E5F9F7CA1622@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150213070612.GA48146@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <9BE10E2F-D281-4E4F-9575-1A41F61AA068@pobox.com> <20150213070612.GA48146@FreeBSD.org>

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On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:36:52PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Did you ever get a solution for this?  I'm having the same problem on a
>> PowerMac G4 "quicksilver" machine.
> 
> Nope, sorry; the clock still runs away, but since ntpd(8) doing a job good
> enough to keep it sane I never had strong motivation to dig the root cause.
> 
> ./danfe

Thanks!  It helps to know that it’s still an unsolved problem.  I’m determined to track it down.  I’ll report back to the freebsd-ppc list when I get it solved.  I’m currently working on using sysctl to patch the assumed frequency of the clock.

Rick



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