clock running fast

[Kevin Kinsey]

> [ 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