From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 17:13:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE8BE854 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 17:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [84.237.50.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 730C91972 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 17:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mx.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WXZaU-0002CR-Pk; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:13:36 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s38HDa3u071433; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:13:46 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id s38HDVjo071424; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:13:31 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:13:30 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: John Hein Subject: Re: System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4 Message-ID: <20140408171330.GA69991@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20140328071714.GA45961@regency.nsu.ru> <20140329100134.GA7863@regency.nsu.ru> <20140404144753.GA58190@regency.nsu.ru> <21311.7096.419714.506103@gromit.timing.com> <20140408141602.GA39088@regency.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140408141602.GA39088@regency.nsu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-KLMS-Rule-ID: 1 X-KLMS-Message-Action: clean X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Lua-Profiles: 59431 [Apr 08 2014] X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Version: 5.3.6 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Envelope-From: danfe@regency.nsu.ru X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Rate: 0 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Status: not_detected X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Method: none X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Moebius-Timestamps: 2865005, 2865033, 0 X-KLMS-AntiSpam-Interceptor-Info: scan successful X-KLMS-AntiVirus: Kaspersky Security 8.0 for Linux Mail Server 8.0.0.455, not checked X-KLMS-AntiVirus-Status: NotChecked: not checked, skipped Cc: ppc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:13:47 -0000 On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:16:02PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:53:12PM -0600, John Hein wrote: > > Alexey Dokuchaev danfe-at-nsu.ru wrote at 21:47 +0700 on Apr 4, 2014: > > > 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. :-( > > > > You could try chronyd vs. ntpd - the former works with a larger > > frequency error. Untested by me. I also don't think we have a port > > yet. > > Thanks for suggestion; I'll take a look into chronyd and report of the > results. I've discovered there was PR filed on it back in 2012 (ports/174263), but apparently swills@ got sidetracked, so it was not committed until now. I have added it as of r350635. Unfortunately, it does not work on PowerPC, at least for me it dies with ``Could not open any NTP socket'' message on startup. :-( ./danfe