NTP problem - Clock too fast for NTP to keep up?

[Peter Kiem]

> I too had the fast clock problem, and by tickling the tick counter 
> with the 'tickadj' command, was able to stay well within 1 second per 
> hour.  The bare command will return the current tick value, default 
> is 10000, but I'm curently setting it at 9926 for accurate time 
> keeping.  This seems to be 2.6 problem as the default is pretty close 
> on a 2.4.29 system running on an elderly TYAN mobo at 500mhz.

Where and how would you set the tickadj parameter?
Would you set it higher or lower for a system running too fast?

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Peter Kiem

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