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SubjectRe: AMD Quad Core clock problem?

--- 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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