Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:27:30 -0400 From: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: "Nan Wang" <nanericwang@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The clock is too fast in FreeBSD! Message-ID: <1f0101c3245c$1b1f67a0$7419cdcd@ticking> References: <Law9-F62jkIYA5kcDj60002ff50@hotmail.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nan Wang" <nanericwang@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:17 AM Subject: The clock is too fast in FreeBSD! > Hi! > The clock in FreeBSD is too fast! > I tried GENERIC kernel, the BSD clock is still too fast. > the problem is on 5.0 Release, 5.1 BETA1, and 5.1 BETA2. > I have not yet tried 4.x. > I'm using PII 366Mhz Acer notebook w/ 192mb RAM ALi Chipset > but there is no problem on Win98 and Linux(Redhat 8) > > I guess, in a Windows system, the timing function read time > from CMOS(Hardware Clock), where as FreeBSD just add itself > which is too dangerous for a server. > > Hope the problem will be solved in future. > good luck. > > > Eric. The Hardware clock isn't trustworthy either. for a server, you should be running ntpd and syncing with an atomic clock anyways. Adam
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