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From: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
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Subject: Re: NTP issues with 5.4 (SOLVED)
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I wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I run ntpd in daemon mode on several FreeBSD computers and synchronize
> with 'ntpd -q' all others.
> 
> I've just updated one machine to 5.4 (from 5.3) and noticed the daemon
> was unhappy, often logging 'time reset' and resynchronizing with peers.
> On other machines I also only recently (after the upgrade to 5.4) see
> ntp problems - 'ntpd -q' gets stuck and time goes off. The machines were
> all fine before.
> 
> I searched the web and archives and found some more people complaining
> about similar issues but I haven't found any good answer. At first I
> thought it was happening only on SMP computers but it isn't the case.
> The machines have all kinds of timecounters - ACPI-fast, ACPI-safe and
> i8254.

I'd like to let you all know that I don't think the problem is as
widespread as I originally thought.

After tens of restarts of ntpd processes I've never experienced any
problem synchronizing. No more hung 'ntpd -q' processes either. I
suspect the latter was a consequence of my server having problems
synchronizing.

Michal