NTP problem

[Jack Challen]

Lunt, Nick wrote:
> The DL385 will talk to the ntpserver and get the correct time, but it will gradually start going forward too fast, until after about 1/2 an hour the DL385 will be about 5 minutes into the future.
> My other Linux boxes (a mix of Opteron and Itanium) have no problems.

what does "ntpq -p" say?

> I am getting this error in messages -
> "Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts"

Weird. Everything I've found seems to relate to cpu frequencies. Have 
you tried booting the box with the "noapic" option to the kernel?

cheers
jack