Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:15:22 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntp frequent time resets - battery dead? Message-ID: <20140304171522.2934a2b8@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <201403040907.s2497MvI042115@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201403040907.s2497MvI042115@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Hi, On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:07:25 -0800 (PST) Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: > > I see in /var/log/messages: > > Mar 4 00:16:40 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.291030 s > Mar 4 00:38:02 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.344745 s > Mar 4 00:57:37 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.338739 s > Mar 4 01:19:45 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.355020 s > Mar 4 01:41:34 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.365177 s > Mar 4 01:58:41 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.306982 s > > and so on. > > The correction seems large to me. > Does this indicate that the battery is dead? do you reboot between? If not, it is not the battery but the quartz used by the clock. > > This is on a Sun Blade 1500 silver desktop, > about 10 years old. This also can happen on new hardware. But it would be real rare. Did you check for dirt in the PCB? Erich
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