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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:02:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Time Driftine Really Fast
Message-ID:  <199904281602.JAA17273@ix.netcom.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.3.95.990428045927.23594A-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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I am running 4.0-current SMP of Apr 21 16:51:36 1999.

Time appears to be drifting very fast, ~300 sec in 8 hours. dmesg and config
attached at the end.  I am using CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION.

On 27 Apr at about 2000, the system appeared to freeze for several
seconds, while lightly loaded, one user, using emacs to edit a small
(10k?) text file.

27 Apr 08:02:47 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.268785
27 Apr 23:54:17 ntpdate: step time server   192.5.41.40 offset 564.832098
27 Apr 23:54:24 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.092320
27 Apr 23:54:46 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.269666
27 Apr 23:55:41 ntpdate: step time server   192.5.41.40 offset 0.807377
28 Apr 08:39:52 ntpdate: step time server   192.5.41.40 offset 310.876164
28 Apr 08:40:25 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.327690
28 Apr 08:48:28 ntpdate: step time server   192.5.41.40 offset 4.873418

From /var/log/messages:
Apr 16 23:10:46 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193024 Hz
Apr 19 12:51:55 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193032 Hz
Apr 20 07:23:17 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193036 Hz
Apr 20 09:02:17 celebris /kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193040 Hz



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