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

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