There was run of this many months ago. In some cases, ntpd cannot easily keep up the machine loses time so fast. Certain applications make it far worse - in my case it was a known problem with the gnome2 battery stat applet (for laptops) hogging cpu time when it checked the battery status. Some kde apps were implicated at the time as well. Try running from a console in single and see if you can isolate a particular application or service. Also pre-empt, system time slice etc may not be helping.
ntpd or chrony is the only fix in some cases, but really all it does is mask the symptoms, often causing extreem jitter in the process. BillK On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:29, Phil Barnett wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 8:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have the time set to local because I have a dual-boot with winXP. The > > system clock loses time really fast. I can set it correctly before going > > to work, come back, and it's behind an hour! This is a pretty big problem. > > I would appreciate any help. I could sync with a time server, but I > > shouldn't *have* to. > > You need to be running ntpd. It will learn your clock drift and correct for it > permanently. > > Here is my /etc/ntpd.conf file. Of course, you'll have to change the addresses > at the bottom to your subnet/machines. If you're not in North America, it > would be a good idea to pick closer time servers. > > server ntp0.cornell.edu > server ntp.cmr.gov > server ntp1.cs.wisc.edu > server clock.psu.edu > > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift > > authenticate no > > # by default, don't trust and don't allow modifications > restrict default notrust nomodify > > # these are the timeserver addresses > restrict ntp0.cornell.edu > restrict ntp.cmr.gov > restrict ntp1.cs.wisc.edu > restrict clock.psu.edu > > # this and other time server addresses are unrestricted. > restrict 192.168.100.5 > restrict 192.168.100.15 > restrict 127.0.0.1 > > > - -- > > "The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true." -- > William Shakespeare > KI4DPT > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAIdS0WMqSOYd58pwRAkgMAJ0TKfqnXt+WgczE11TocAo+W6c3yQCeIEqy > /7bVfsHnXS6CYGqKdNciWtg= > =fhvJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
