Debugging time

[Victor Snezhko]

Hi, Eric,

>>>> For about half a year I have another weirdness with time on my
>>>> -current box without vmware, maybe it's somehow has common origins
>>>> ...

>> When I just reboot FreeBSD, offset doesn't exceed one or two seconds
>> (notably, bios takes longer to boot, about 5-10 seconds). When BSD is
>> inactive for several hours, number is much bigger.
>>
>> I neglected to debug this deeply before - I assumed I have overlooked
>> something simple, but now that you have reported another issue in the
>> similar area, I'll try to collect full information.
>
> When you say 'inactive', do you mean that you have suspended the
> machine in vmware, or it is 'powered off'?

My machine isn't on vmware, it's a hardware box. I just power it off.

Nevertheless, yesterday all the evening I hadn't internet access -
thunderstorm has broken my wires. And guess what - ntpdate couldn't
find ntp servers, but the system date was correct anyway. So I guess
my issue has something to do with ntpdate. I didn't set any unusual
flags, just ntpdate_enable="YES" and ntpdate_hosts="ntp.example.com".
As the second invocation of ntpdate (by hand) always reported much
offset which is less than a second, I think ntp servers (I tried two
or three) is OK too.

-- 
WBR, Victor V. Snezhko
E-mail: snezhko at indorsoft.ru