Clock running fast
Luke Dean
LukeD at pobox.com
Wed May 4 21:48:08 PDT 2005
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ryan Winograd wrote:
> 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
I wish I'd known about that sysctl when I had this problem on my last
system! I tried ntp, but having ntp constantly resetting the clock just
added new problems.
Thanks for sharing the outcome with us.
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