Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:09:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Marc Perkel <> | Subject | Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem? |
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--- Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:
> If it's steadily losing a few seconds every hour, > it's probably just > slightly mis-calibrated hardware. ntp should fix > this right up. If the > drift is more extreme than ntp can correct for, or > the drift keeps > changing, or time is jumping around, that is > definitely something that > could be a bug. > > > hpet clockevent registered > > TSC calibrated against HPET > > Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized > > It's possible that in future kernels we'll be a few > clock cycles more > accurate in calibrating this on Barcelona chips, but > calibration is only > as good as the standard of comparison. There will > always be hardware > that's slightly off, so run ntp, or use a nightly > ntpdate cronjob. If > your time starts drifting drastically or jumping > around, please yell > really loud. > > -- Chris >
Is it possible due to calibration that ntpd isn't able to correct the problem? Is there a setting to make ntp more agressive?
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