From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 28 9: 2:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa15-03.ix.netcom.com [207.93.148.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FFB15752 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:02:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA17273; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904281602.JAA17273@ix.netcom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: celebris.tddhome: tomdean set sender to tomdean@ix.netcom.com using -f From: Thomas Dean To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Time Driftine Really Fast References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running 4.0-current SMP of Apr 21 16:51:36 1999. Time appears to be drifting very fast, ~300 sec in 8 hours. dmesg and config attached at the end. I am using CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION. On 27 Apr at about 2000, the system appeared to freeze for several seconds, while lightly loaded, one user, using emacs to edit a small (10k?) text file. 27 Apr 08:02:47 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.268785 27 Apr 23:54:17 ntpdate: step time server 192.5.41.40 offset 564.832098 27 Apr 23:54:24 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.092320 27 Apr 23:54:46 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.269666 27 Apr 23:55:41 ntpdate: step time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.807377 28 Apr 08:39:52 ntpdate: step time server 192.5.41.40 offset 310.876164 28 Apr 08:40:25 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.327690 28 Apr 08:48:28 ntpdate: step time server 192.5.41.40 offset 4.873418 From /var/log/messages: Apr 16 23:10:46 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193024 Hz Apr 19 12:51:55 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193032 Hz Apr 20 07:23:17 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193036 Hz Apr 20 09:02:17 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193040 Hz