From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 02:09:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6AB16A400 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alfred.morgan@experclick.com) Received: from mail20.intermedia.net (mail20.intermedia.net [64.78.61.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A3C43D69 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:09:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alfred.morgan@experclick.com) Received: from [192.168.102.54] (cust-64-4-140-149.dsl.fix.net [64.4.140.149]) by mail20.intermedia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0CCD8CB; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:08:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4420B1A9.2000603@experclick.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:08:41 -0800 From: Alfred Morgan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060213 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sub02@freeode.co.uk References: <44204E79.4090408@experclick.com> <7c61221qt0meet1dudmids5vgcisejjjth@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <7c61221qt0meet1dudmids5vgcisejjjth@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:09:10 -0000 I have now enabled ACPI on one machine (making the computer more unstable) and it has stopped drifting. ntpd was disabled for this test. Now that it shows it stopped drifting I have enabled ntpd to see if that causes problems. On another machine I have left ACPI disabled and restarted ntpd (with -g) and exactly 6 hours later I got: Mar 21 16:44:13 ntpd[19918]: time reset +3521.285507 s Mar 21 16:44:13 ntpd[19918]: kernel time sync disabled 6041 I tried looking in timex.h to see what 6041 ment but I could not figure out if 6041 is a mode code or status code. John Murphy wrote: > Interesting. Were all the upgrades from versions less than 5.3 > I wonder? Reason I ask is that many people (including me) seem to > have started having problems with ntp around that time. There was > a thread in the stable mailing list about it here: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050401104508.GJ71384 > > Perhaps the ntp problem is related to what you're seeing and not > an ntp problem at all. Someone raised a bug report at ntp.isc.org > https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=452 > but it has had no action. > > Sorry it's only a hunch and not a solution. > > > Versions were 5.3 or 5.4 upgraded to 6.0 or 6.1 -alfred