Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 22:36:23 +0200 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: "Martin Dieringer" <martin.dieringer@gmx.de>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: clock too slow - big time offset with ntpdate Message-ID: <005901c78c30$63944a10$4b2e3e0a@claylaptop> References: <20070501204548.L860@thinkpad.dieringer.dyndns.org>
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> Hi, > > I get about half a second time offsets after 10 seconds, and more > than 100s after half an hour or so. > I think it has to do with powerd, if I kill that, the time stays correct. > It happens both on a Compaq nc4000 and an IBM ThinkPad T42p laptop. > > Can this be solved? > thanks > m. This has got to do with the speed stepping of the CPU to save battery. Far as I know there's no fix yet. Guys is it possible to hack powerd to change a sysctl variable when it changes the CPU frequency or isn't it that simple? -Clay
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