From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 13 13:15:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730E737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tntpro.com (dsl-207-5-188-75.gwi.net [207.5.188.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2AB43F85 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tony@tntpro.com) Received: from lappy (lappy.tntpro.com [192.168.0.16]) by tntpro.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1DLFG7n012805; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:15:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tony@tntpro.com) From: "tony" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Problems with timekeeping Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:16:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <5296.1045123157@critter.freebsd.dk> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG as you can see below that fixed it! before every time I did an nptdate command it would be a second off at least. Thank you for the help! Tony root:~# sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe -> i8254 root:~# ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov 13 Feb 16:07:05 ntpdate[12753]: step time server 198.123.30.132 offset -75.755911 sec root:~# ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov 13 Feb 16:07:07 ntpdate[12754]: adjust time server 198.123.30.132 offset -0.002553 sec root:~# ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov 13 Feb 16:07:09 ntpdate[12757]: adjust time server 198.123.30.132 offset 0.001302 sec root:~# ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov 13 Feb 16:07:10 ntpdate[12758]: adjust time server 198.123.30.132 offset -0.003793 sec root:~# ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov 13 Feb 16:07:12 ntpdate[12759]: adjust time server 198.123.30.132 offset 0.003071 sec root:~# -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of phk@phk.freebsd.dk Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:59 AM To: tony Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with timekeeping In message , "tony" writes: >My time clock seems to do two ticks for every one that it should do. I'm not >sure where to start on fixing this. I had 4.7 installed and did a clean >install of 5.0 release thats when I noticed the time keeping weirdness.. it >always kept time perfectly before. I cvsuped to tag=RELENG_5_0 and built >installed built kernel installed. but no change... > >Any ideas? Please try: sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message