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Subject: Re: System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4
From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 05:01:34PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:28:12AM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote:
>> > I'm curious on two things:
>> > 1. Is ntpd running/set in /etc/rc.conf?
>>
>> No, it's off.  I guess if I had it running it won't let the clock to
>> behave like that. :)
>
> Running ntpd(8) unfortunately does not make things better (well maybe it
> helps a bit, but clock still drifts away pretty fast).  I guess my only
> option is to run ntpdate(8) periodically. :-(
>
> ./danfe

Curious, could you post your dmesg with boot verbose?  I haven't run
into a problem with clock drift on any of my ppc machines, albeit I've
never tested on my mini.  There might be something with your PMU.

- Justin