clock running fast
Kevin Kinsey
kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Dec 30 15:06:46 PST 2004
> [ rc.conf and ntp.conf snipped ]
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I've been through all
> that, including the rude values of minpoll and maxpoll, using multiple
> servers, and starting with a fresh drift file. I'm pretty sure ntpd
> isn't the problem. In addition, the hardware clock itself appears to be
> plenty accurate, as it is always correct within a second or two when I
> check it directly in BIOS ... and two other 5.3-STABLE hosts on the same
> network, with the same ntpd configuration, but on different hardware, do
> not have this problem, which began when I updated (reinstalled) to
> 5.3-STABLE from 5.2.
>
> - --
> David Talkington
> dtalk-ml at prairienet.org
I apparently misposted this earlier, my apologies.
Have you tried all possible values for kern.timecounter.hardware?
#sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
My most recent encounter with this issue, a K6-2/500 on an
Asus P5A mobo, needed "i8254".
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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