Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:54:23 -0500 From: Ryan Winograd <rylwin@houston.rr.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clock running fast Message-ID: <4279448F.4010103@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <34d0f02f0868350c3c07570e3a73ceef@mac.com> References: <42792740.3040501@houston.rr.com> <34d0f02f0868350c3c07570e3a73ceef@mac.com>
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Charles Swiger wrote: > On May 4, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ryan Winograd wrote: > >> I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set >> up is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What >> can i do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be >> helpful? > > > Try changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl; you can look at the > available choices via: > > sysctl kern.timecounter.choice > Thanks for all the advice everyone. The solution was changing the kern.timecounter.hardware sysctl to i8254 (was ACPI-safe). I was using NTP, but when the clock is at 2x even having cron run ntp every minute is too innacurate. Thx again! Ryanhome | help
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