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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 10:11:44 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to improve a bad timekeeper
Message-ID:  <20010523101144.C6091@billygoat.slb.to>
In-Reply-To: <15115.53325.566433.473253@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kcilink.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:59:25AM -0400
References:  <15115.53325.566433.473253@onceler.kciLink.com>

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> I have one 4.3-STABLE box that is a really bad timekeeper.  ntpd has
> a hard time keeping it in line.  Often offset is high, and I see
> loss of synchronization frequently.
> 
> I've tried the following to work around the bad timekeeping:...
> 
> Still, the time is offset about between 0.7 and 1.4 seconds from the
> two ntp servers to which I synchronize (both on my network)...

How much drift is this?  Is it off by 0.7..1.4 seconds per year? day?
hour?

> Are there any other things I can try to get this machine to keep
> better time?

  http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html

Lucas

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