system time "slowing down" ?

[Odhiambo Washington]

* On 28/11/05 18:47 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps
> >lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few
> >days I see that it's lost quite some hours again?
> >
> >What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena
> >is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall
> >so I don't doubt it.
> 
> If your hardware clock loses hours over the course of a few days, the  
> CMOS time-of-day clock is probably broken.  Is ntpd able to keep your  
> clock sane?

I'll try that option and monitor, since we have a local time server in
Kenya ;)

> 
> What does "sysctl kern.timecounter" say?

beastie# sysctl kern.timecounter
kern.timecounter.tick: 1
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC
kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 3
kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 231411
kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0
kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0
kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 337002
kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 6191
kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 12350
kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 392742
kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 892365
kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1285111
kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 1584
kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0
kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 7282034
kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0



-Wash

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