System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:47:53PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev 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. :-(

I was wrong; for quite a while, system clock is sane now, albeit with the
following messages in syslog (lots of them):

  May 27 20:25:03 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.291922 s
  May 27 20:41:38 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.325985 s
  May 27 20:58:01 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.286421 s
  May 27 21:13:52 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.281041 s
  May 27 21:30:21 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.313736 s
  May 27 21:46:33 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.248779 s
  May 27 22:02:49 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.310940 s
  May 27 22:18:51 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.244888 s
  May 27 22:34:10 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.253939 s
  May 27 22:50:28 <ntp.notice> macmini ntpd[650]: time reset +2.312099 s

./danfe