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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:06:43 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        dtalk-ml@prairienet.org
Subject:   Re: clock running fast
Message-ID:  <20041230230643.GA87010@ezekiel.daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20041230222903.GA16002@archangel.daleco.biz>
References:  <20041230222903.GA16002@archangel.daleco.biz>

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> [ 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@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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