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

[jdow]

From: "Peter Kiem" <zordah at zordah.net>

> > Give it some time, Gene. It seems to be far enough off it may take
> > a day or so to get down to 2ms type errors. (And if you have ntpdate
> > running please be nice to yourself and turn it off. It will screw
> > up the feedback loop ntp uses to average out bad data.)
> 
> Are you saying that you can run ntpdate and ntpd at the same time?

*N*O*!*

> When I try to ntpdate when ntpd is running I always get "the NTP socket 
> is in use, exiting" and have to stop ntpd first.

There is a way to do it. It upsets the feedback loop in ntp. And just
off hand I would never expect ntp to work right in any virtual machine.

{^_^}