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From: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
To: Bill Anderson <banderson@hp.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: system (not HW) clock advancing really fast
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:45:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402161545.09901.mhf@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076916391.25980.23.camel@perseus>

On Monday 16 February 2004 15:26, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 23:24, Michael Frank wrote:
> > I had this somtetimes when using ntpd doing step time update
> > resulting in silly values in /etc/adjtime . 
> > 
> > # mv /etc/adjtime /tmp 
> > # hwclock --systohc
> > 
> > and see if it goes away.
> 
> Thanks, though it didn't work. :(
> 

Please check your /etc/ntp/drift , the value in it is
usually between -30.0 and 30.0

If it is much larger than that, set it to 0.0 and restart ntpd.

Also move /etc/adjtime away again.

Regards
Michael



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16  5:46 system (not HW) clock advancing really fast Bill Anderson
2004-02-16  6:24 ` Michael Frank
2004-02-16  7:26   ` Bill Anderson
2004-02-16  7:45     ` Michael Frank [this message]
2004-02-16  7:48       ` Bill Anderson
2004-02-16  8:41         ` Michael Frank
2004-02-16  8:50           ` Michael Frank

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