Re: 2.6.10-rc3 vs clock

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:

 >>    At -rc2 my clock kept fairly decent time, but -rc3 is running 
fast, about 30 seconds an hour fast.
 >>
 >>    I've been using ntpdate, is that now officially deprecated?

 > Running ntpd used to keep the clock dead on, now my 2.6 systems all 
drift one way or the other. I suspect that the system calls used by ntpd 
 > have changed somehow, but until I find the time to look harder I 
can't > say that except as conjecture.
 >
 > The sad thing is that most of the systems have quite good hardware 
clocks...

Gene Heskett suggested I play around with tickadj and I found that a 
value of 9962 on this SuSE 9.2/XP3000+ has kept it rock solid over the 
last 4 days. On the x86_64 laptop with XP3000+-Mobile, it's never been 
out, both of them running 2.6.10-rc3 and using ntpd to keep in step. On 
the other box with Mandrake 10.1/XP2800+ and 2.6.10-rc3, I had to set it 
to 9958. Something has definitely changed with 2.6.10-rc3.
Regards
Sid.
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