slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

[andrew clarke]

On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (robert at webtent.com) wrote:

> pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
> kern.ipc.semmni=32
> kern.ipc.semmns=512
> hint.apic.0.disabled=1

According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format:

kern.ipc.semmni="32"
kern.ipc.semmns="512"
hint.apic.0.disabled="1"

I don't know if this matters.

I'm not sure hint.apic.0.disabled is valid for 7.2.  sysctl -a doesn't
list this variable on my machine.  Maybe it's only available on some
machines.

> The only way I'm able to keep the clock up to date is to sync with
> an Internet time server regularly. Anyone have an idea how fix this
> issue?

Can you use ntpd?

Regards
Andrew