From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 20:30:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576BF106566B for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:30:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f51.google.com (mail-ew0-f51.google.com [209.85.215.51]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AB08FC18 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1292391ewy.10 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.15.1 with SMTP id i1mr2154780eba.12.1291840201117; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:30:01 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.31.209 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:29:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Brennan Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:29:40 -0500 Message-ID: To: Dave Cundiff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terrible Clock Skew X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:30:03 -0000 On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Dave Cundiff wrote: > Hi everyone, > bad button battery maybe? when the system is under load, it's diverting what ever processor time to correct for the skew elsewhere (guessing). If it is a bad battery, setup NTP to reset your system clock more frequently.