System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4

[Rick Thomas]

On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:36:52PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> Did you ever get a solution for this?  I'm having the same problem on a
>> PowerMac G4 "quicksilver" machine.
> 
> Nope, sorry; the clock still runs away, but since ntpd(8) doing a job good
> enough to keep it sane I never had strong motivation to dig the root cause.
> 
> ./danfe

Thanks!  It helps to know that it’s still an unsolved problem.  I’m determined to track it down.  I’ll report back to the freebsd-ppc list when I get it solved.  I’m currently working on using sysctl to patch the assumed frequency of the clock.

Rick