Clock running fast
Ryan Winograd
rylwin at houston.rr.com
Wed May 4 14:55:12 PDT 2005
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!
Ryan
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