On Feb 12, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Phil W Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rick Thomas <[email protected]> considered Thu, 12 Feb 2015 > 09:44:30 GMT the perfect time to write: > >> Hi All, >> >> I’ve got a machine with a really bad clock. When I run NTP on it, the freq >> goes straight to 500.0 (over a period of a few days) and stays there, while >> the offset grows and grows. >> >> I recently switched this machine from Debian Linux to FreeBSD (wanting to >> learn more about FreeBSD). Under Linux, I used adjtimex to modify the TICK >> value and (once I had converged on the right value) NTP was able to >> stabilize the clock. >> >> Is there an equivalent hack for FreeBSD? >> >> Thanks! >> Rick > > Replace the hardware. Thanks for the suggestion, but “no thanks.” I keep this machine around specifically for testing new free software and reporting back to the developers about exactly this kind of problem. This is what it’s there for. Rick _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
