Hal Murray wrote: > [drift > 500 ppm] > >> It's almost certainly a hardware problem. Ntpd is telling you that the >> clock is gaining, or losing, more than about 43 seconds (500 parts per >> million) per day. 500 PPM is the maximum that ntpd can handle. > > It could easily be a software screwup. > > Unless you know it works on that particular type of hardware, > I'd give software equal probability. >
Do not even think about using NTP on a T1000, T2000, or T5120 until you have the latest firmware patch installed (nah-nah, wasn't hardware OR software. Or maybe both?). There is a bug in all three that causes the firmware to report an incorrect clock frequency to the kernel on boot up. Interestingly, the bug in the T1000 and T2000 is different from the bug in the T5120. See my blog post at http://blogs.sun.com/blu/entry/spread_spectrum_emi_and_the for an explanation of the T5120 issue. Brian Utterback _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
