[Linux-ia64] clock goes out of sync on itanium

[Linux-ia64] clock goes out of sync on itanium

[Randolph Chung]

Hi,

I've noticed that my i2000 running 2.4.1[89] kernels is pretty poor at
keeping time. It seems to drift backwards in time ~5-10 minutes a week.

Have anyone else seen this problem?

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/

Re: [Linux-ia64] clock goes out of sync on itanium

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "tausq" = Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org> writes:

tausq> Hi, I've noticed that my i2000 running 2.4.1[89] kernels is
tausq> pretty poor at keeping time. It seems to drift backwards in
tausq> time ~5-10 minutes a week.

tausq> Have anyone else seen this problem?

Yes.  My i2000s were notoriously bad at keeping time.  I ran xntpd on
all of them for that reason.

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Martin K. Petersen	Wild Open Source, Inc.
mkp@wildopensource.com	http://www.wildopensource.com/

Re: [Linux-ia64] clock goes out of sync on itanium

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "tausq" = Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org> writes:
tausq> Hi, I've noticed that my i2000 running 2.4.1[89] kernels is
tausq> pretty poor at keeping time. It seems to drift backwards in
tausq> time ~5-10 minutes a week.

I had that problem --- even ntp couldn't keep the clock in time.
Turns out that there's a bug in early firmware revisions that
misreports the hardware clock time, leading to bad real-time tracking.
After updating the firmware, the problem went away.

I suggest you check to see if your firmware is at the current
revision.

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Dr Peter Chubb				    peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
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