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Date:      Sat, 10 May 2008 11:50:19 +0100
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rene Maroufi <info@maroufi.net>
Cc:        freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/123462: clock is to fast
Message-ID:  <48257DEB.1040509@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805092200.m49M04Eo098042@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200805092200.m49M04Eo098042@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Rene Maroufi wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR i386/123462; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Rene Maroufi <info@maroufi.net>
> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: i386/123462: clock is to fast
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:56:54 +0200
> 
>  On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:26:46PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>  > ntp is designed to compensate for that sort of drift, but it should be 
>  > run continuously: the best setup is to run ntpdate once on boot to make 
>  > any large adjustments but also to run ntpd so it can track and correct 
>  > any drift.
>  
>  No, I tested this with ntpd too, but ntpd can't correct the time. The
>  time difference between the real time and the PC clock grows with ntpd
>  too.
>  

Can you boot with "kern.hz=100" and check whether or not it makes a 
difference?

Thanks,
-- 
Rui Paulo



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