From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 11 16: 4:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C5437B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141E543FDD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2C04FJu017557; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:04:15 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h2C04FuT017549; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:04:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:04:14 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: James Satterfield Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time drift. Message-ID: <20030311160414.A10184@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030311155025.40d23e08.james@uberduper.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030311155025.40d23e08.james@uberduper.com>; from james@uberduper.com on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:50:25PM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:50:25PM -0800, James Satterfield wrote: > I'm getting what I think is substantial time drift on my -current > boxes. My home firewall in particular drifts about .42 seconds every > hour. My desktop machine drifted ~350 seconds over the last 5 days. > > Anyone else seeing this? I have one machine which failes to keep decent time with ACPI enabled, but it's more like .5sec/sec. Disabling ACPI "fixed" that machine (it's an old thin client so I don't care if it stops being supported at some point). .42sec/hr seems to be within the relm of crappy PC hardware and is probably correctable with NTP. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bnl8XY6L6fI4GtQRAvCQAKDJn5Buqi0RfUkBHF+Q6cizX1HlngCfaymW OqOGvbJ0vRuRThtUhYVukcI= =BhcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message