instability of timekeeping

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <56261FE6.90302 at FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon writes:

>I performed a small observation.  With ntpd disabled I ran `ntpdate -d` at 10
>second intervals in a loop (done via `sleep 10`).  It looks like for about 25
>minutes the time offset between a reference server and my machine was quite
>stable. But then it sort of jumped about 2.5 seconds between two consecutive
>ntpdate invocations.

Pure guesswork:  Somebody may have börked the code to wind up timecounters.

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