clock running fast

[David Talkington]

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Federico Galvez-Durand Besnard wrote:

> what do you have in :
> /etc/ntp.conf

Only:

server 		time.u.washington.edu
server          127.127.1.0 
fudge           127.127.1.0 stratum 10


Command line:

/usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid \
- -f /var/db/ntpd.drift

Thank you ... -d


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> Salutations --
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> I have an old board with an installation of STABLE whose time keeps running 
> away.  ntpd is not helping.  I can manually set the time using ntpdate, and my 
> ntpq queries look fine, yet the clock persists in running very fast (seems to 
> be about 1.5x speed).  The BIOS clock remains correct, and the machine 
> therefore has the correct time at each reboot, but quickly runs away.
>
> Data points:
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> - - I have set kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC, and this has not helped. - - Two 
> other hosts on the same network, using the same ntp server, do not have this 
> problem.
> - - This box did not display this behavior under FreeBSD 5.2. - - I have 
> replaced the board on the problem box (with the same age and type), and the 
> problem persists.
> - - dmesg for this machine, an old Dell Optiplex 590, is below.
>
> What other information might help diagnose the problem?
>
> Thank you ... -d
>
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David Talkington
Computing and Communications
University of Washington
206-543-2144
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