From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 6:18:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cdstech.net (12-222-106-5.client.insightBB.com [12.222.106.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB7D37B405 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 06:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from colossus (colossus [192.168.1.6]) by cdstech.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g36EJPS15620 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:19:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from casey@nixfusion.com) Message-ID: <000701c1dd75$f3b1c330$0601a8c0@nixfusion.com> From: "Casey Scott" To: Subject: ntpd Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:18:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 The following messages log entries are concerning me. I don't know if I should interpret it as the system isn't updating it's time properly, or it's time keeping mechanism is bad. Apr 6 00:09:19 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status 2040 Apr 6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -72.208070 s Apr 6 00:12:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: kernel time discipline status change 2041 Apr 6 00:34:02 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -71.751602 s Apr 6 00:51:18 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -70.855702 s Apr 6 01:09:32 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.938346 s Apr 6 01:26:46 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -69.033806 s Apr 6 01:42:51 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -68.149020 s Apr 6 02:00:04 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -67.230867 s Apr 6 02:17:13 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -66.324598 s Apr 6 02:41:46 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -65.367397 s Apr 6 02:59:00 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -64.338242 s Apr 6 03:19:21 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -63.355782 s Apr 6 03:35:37 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -62.464309 s Apr 6 03:56:01 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -61.472339 s Apr 6 04:15:18 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -60.512887 s Apr 6 04:31:19 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -59.651892 s Apr 6 04:48:32 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -58.749998 s Apr 6 05:05:36 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -57.872887 s Apr 6 05:22:43 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -56.942257 s Apr 6 05:45:14 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -55.909788 s Apr 6 06:02:31 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -54.998330 s Apr 6 06:25:09 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -54.157019 s Apr 6 06:34:50 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -53.274896 s Apr 6 06:58:22 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -52.248662 s Apr 6 07:14:29 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -51.331915 s Apr 6 07:37:01 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -50.367300 s Apr 6 07:48:49 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -49.530241 s Apr 6 08:04:54 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -48.663439 s Apr 6 08:26:22 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -47.709321 s Apr 6 08:41:21 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -46.791000 s Apr 6 09:04:57 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.934261 s Apr 6 09:12:26 spareparts ntpd[12778]: time slew -45.155585 s Isn't the system suppose to adjust it's time after the ntp query provides the correct time? Why does it only seem to be getting better a second or so at a time? I would appreciate any advice. Thanks in advance, Casey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message