From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755745AbYJEBqg (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 21:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754647AbYJEBq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 21:46:29 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:53700 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754061AbYJEBq2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 21:46:28 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rafal Subject: Re: Kernel unable to adjust timeofday Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:46:16 +0200 Organization: LimCore.com Message-ID: References: <47571.1222440706@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <48DD3CAE.9050809@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dbr215.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > adjtimex --tick 9972 > > ... in your startup scripts, before ntpd is started. > > If NTP still goes off the rails, then adjust the tick value in steps of > about 5 until you can get it to converge. > > -hpa Hi, after adjtimex --tick 10029 the calls to ntpdate pool.ntp.org seem to be working: 5 Oct 03:42:37 ntpdate[13218]: adjust time [...] offset -0.318571 sec 5 Oct 03:42:44 ntpdate[13223]: adjust time [...] offset -0.318193 sec 5 Oct 03:43:14 ntpdate[13226]: adjust time [...] offset -0.317724 sec 5 Oct 03:43:49 ntpdate[13233]: adjust time [...] offset -0.326299 sec 5 Oct 03:45:01 ntpdate[13263]: adjust time [...] offset -0.325523 sec Which seems to be improvement since previously the offset was increasing 0.1 0.2 0.3 etc, untill it reached 0.5 and then jumped to 0. Now I will test with ntpd but I hope it will work this time; Thanks -- Rafał Maj Software developer http://www.limcore.com/