On May 15, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Volker Jahns wrote:
FreeBSD 6.2 running on X86 hardware (FSC) shows a remarkable time
drift
running ntpdate every half hour shows that the system looses about
10-14 sec each time.
15 May 10:06:48 ntpdate[7200]: step time server 192.53.103.108
offset -13.799602 sec
15 May 10:36:48 ntpdate[7515]: step time server 192.53.103.108
offset -12.813941 sec
15 May 11:06:48 ntpdate[7879]: step time server 192.53.103.108
offset -13.651921 sec
15 May 11:36:50 ntpdate[8079]: step time server 192.53.103.108
offset -11.109298 sec
15 May 12:06:50 ntpdate[8289]: step time server 192.53.103.108
offset -11.836499 sec
While you should run ntpdate -b at system boot, running ntpdate
periodically via cron is not the right thing to do-- you should run
ntpd instead, and that will figure out the intrinsic correction your
chosen system clock needs to keep better time via the ntp.drift file.
You should also take a look at the output of "sysctl
kern.timecounter", and possibly switch to a different mechanism, if
the existing choice doesn't work out well for your machine...
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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