Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:22:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: Hyperactive time Message-ID: <199512020822.AAA01205@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199512020755.SAA27501@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Dec 2, 95 07:00:07 pm
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I just realised I'm seeing this as well, I noticed that xearth is showing daylight here, bat my eyes say differnt if I look outside.. A kernel compiled on Nov 26 is ok, but one compiled Wednesday seems to have fun with time.. "aha! I'll call it tardis!.. tardis.tfs.com.. has a certain ring to it.. and I can go home earlier too!" julian.. > > G'day, > > I've got a _real_ special 2.0.5R system here. The more I compile, the faster > the time goes. Good grief! Is the system trying to tell me something? No, > I'm _not_ joking. I heard of real time, but this is crazy. > > Any idea what I could've done to the thing to cause this? > > I tried deleting the /etc/wall_clock_thingy, then I commented adjkerntz out > of /etc/rc, but nothing seems affect it. > > When I boot the system, it starts at the bios time. It's OK for a while > then whooooosh...... > > Could it be seeing the xntpd packets that OSF/1 puts out? not unless you're running xntpd on the BSD box.. you could have a cron job htat does ntpdate osfbox every 5 minutes :) does the dmesg show your CPU (if it's a pentium) as being the right speed? > > > -- > John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd > jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street > Ph +61 3 9690 9600 South Melbourne Vic 3205 > Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia > Mob +61 18 353 137 >
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