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From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Marc Perkel <mperkel@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:16:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4803AD83.4030807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <303918.65020.qm@web52503.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Marc Perkel wrote:
> My best guess at this time is that the drift of this
> computer using the quad core is so great that the ntpd
> can't get in sync. Is there any way to make ntpd more
> agressive by setting something in ntp.conf?

ntp can correct for 500 ppm drift, which equates to 1.8 seconds per hour. 
Beyond that you need to run ntpdate or ntpd -gq from cron to correct it.

-- Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11 18:27 AMD Quad Core clock problem? Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 18:35 ` H. Willstrand
2008-04-11 18:38 ` Chris Snook
2008-04-11 20:28   ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 21:11     ` Chris Snook
2008-04-11 21:36       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-11 21:38         ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-13 19:35           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 15:12             ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14 16:23               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 16:29                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-15  1:11               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-15  1:24                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-15  1:45                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-15  2:40                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-11 21:46         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-04-11 22:09       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-13  8:19         ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-12  1:04       ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-14 19:16         ` Chris Snook [this message]
2008-04-14 20:46           ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-15  6:11           ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-16 21:44             ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-17  6:17               ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-17 18:03                 ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-18 11:56                   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-17 21:09           ` Marc Perkel
2008-04-14 13:40       ` Marc Perkel

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