From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 13:17:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1AC37B425 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 13:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g41KGZqE069367; Wed, 1 May 2002 22:16:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Daniel Rock Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: clock drift in -CURRENT In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 2002 21:57:19 +0200." <3CD0489F.D79EFF3F@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:16:35 +0200 Message-ID: <69366.1020284195@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <3CD0489F.D79EFF3F@t-online.de>, Daniel Rock writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb: >> >> When was your source tree from on that kernel ? >> >> I'm not too confident in your diagnosis, mostly because we don't >> have a counter like you describe :-) >> >> My guess is that ntpd get confused. >> >> Please try a newer kernel, a number of bug(lets) have been fixed >> since march. >> >> If it happens again, please email me the output of: >> ntpdc -c peer >> ntpdc -c loopi >> ntpdc -c kerni >> dmesg >> >[...] > >My kernel war relatively recent at the time of last boot - build >around March 2nd from -CURRENT sources a few hours before. Right, but look at a cvs log src/sys/kern/kern_tc.c... I've fixed at least one bug in the NTP steering since then. >If someone runs -CURRENT with default HZ of 100 and moans 247 days >later, his -CURRENT cannot be called -CURRENT any more... :-) >I am now running an up-to-date -CURRENT. I have set HZ=10000, so >I don't have to wait another 50 days. Hope this high HZ value has >no negative impact on the test. > >I will inform you in 3 days if anything strange happens again. Cool. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message