massive time drift. NTP help required

Mark Hutchinson markhsa at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 12:34:08 UTC 2007


Just to answer my own question for others that may be looking.
It is a 2.6.9 ( RHEL ) kernel issue.  There are a few partially working
methods, but most disable SMP etc....
I upgraded to FC7 and now my Intel 965 is working perfectly.

Mark

On 6/1/07, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>
> > Any idea what causes this?  Hardware issues?
> > Where does the 10195 number come from?
> >
> > I just like to understand what the issue cause is and what the command
> > actually does.
>
>
> 100% + 1.95% = 101.95%
>
> > On 6/1/07, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> > > > I have a server that has a time drift of around a minute every hour.
> > > > Overnight, that is pretty extreme and as this is a PVR, it causes
> > > problems.
> > > > I have NTP enabled but am still getting this drift and NTP is not
> > > > correcting or putting much in the logs ( no exit messages )
> > >
> > > I had the same problem on a brand-new DC7700. ntp can only correct
> > > within 500 ppm (0.05%). For some reason, the DC700 clock was 1.95% too
> > > fast!
>
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