Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:59:42 -0800 | From | Todd Larason <> | Subject | Re: NTP dumps Linux, film at 11. [Fwd/FYI] |
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On 981203, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Some of the reports of drifts of the order of 10-15 > seconds/day can be written off to simply sucky PC hardware, but the > reports of drifts of minutes per minutes can't just be bad hardware. > Esecpailly in Brandon's case, where he's seeing significant drift > *forward* in time.
I have one machine that always drifts forward, at least 3 minutes/day, and sometimes up to 10 minutes/hour. The worst long-term drift I've seen from it was when I was on vacation for and it was basically idle for 11 days, during which time it slipped forward over three hours. I started running XNTP on it after that, so don't pay much attention any more, but XNTP does have a devil of a time keeping it synchronized sometimes.
Just to muddy the waters even mroe: the machine started out running Redhat 4.x (4.2 I think), and is now running 5.1. It's a production build box, so it always runs the stock RH kernels.
I don't know anything unusual with the hardware; it's a triton II motherboard, 200mhz pentium, IDE-based PC. -- ICQ UIN: 106905656
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