From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 20:58:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep4.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8426437B417 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.upton.net (d141-18-230.home.cgocable.net [24.141.18.230]) by fep4.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9057B6258; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:58:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:58:40 -0500 From: Paul Murphy To: "Jim McIver" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock problem Message-Id: <20020104235840.233e4b1d.pnmurphy@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <3C359D86.21985.57D65F4E@localhost> References: <3C359D86.21985.57D65F4E@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) X-Face: %`O\>ue)JTOw*1L"cm|-S$os3*E{a"4D2O~kv*V{{Wl`]xxMc.q+0haZ;?#^OM93$.ce{%5J^q2y?b`34cn])eqUz600g[F|>7M(>&~)}mR7\+GS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:18:12 -7 "Jim McIver" wrote: > I'm recently installed Freebsd 4.4 and clock is gaining over an hour in > a 24 hour period. > I had a machine that couldn't keep time properly a while back, I had to adjust the Timecounter "i8254" frequency and/or Timecounter "TSC" frequency. Don't remember how I calibrated it but I have: options CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION options CLK_USE_TSC_CALIBRATION in my kernel configuration file, and it keeps good enough time for (x)ntpd to adjust. [Too large a variation and ntpd fails to sync] -- I call it "No-Pants Wonderday," but it turns out the police just call it "Thursday." Go figure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message