From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757824AbYDNTQb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:16:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753633AbYDNTQV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:16:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40774 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753584AbYDNTQU (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:16:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4803AD83.4030807@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:16:19 -0400 From: Chris Snook User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem? References: <303918.65020.qm@web52503.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <303918.65020.qm@web52503.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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