Messages in this thread | | | From | Gabriel Paubert <> | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:39:26 +0100 | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:13:50PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi folks, > > When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; > Freescale 7447A): > > $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 > > Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared with the > system time. "make" is not a very happy bunny running on this kernel > due to every touched file being 3 minutes in the future. > > When the same command is run on 2.6.15.3: > > $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date > Sun Feb 12 14:27:27 GMT 2006 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 14:27 > Sun Feb 12 14:27:27 GMT 2006 > > In this case the times are identical, as you would expect. > > In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might > be a problem.
I don't know whether it is reloated, but since I installed a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on my G4/466, I have log messages that claim that the clock error rate is too large for NTP to correct (larger than 512ppm).
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