Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 18 avril 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit : > Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > >I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a > >kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? > > > > > > Well, from googling around, it seems that a few seconds per day of drift > b

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: >I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a >kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? > > Well, from googling around, it seems that a few seconds per day of drift between the system clock and hardware clock is considered perfectly normal, and

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 08:43 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > >>do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? > > > I don't think so (it's not a laptop). How do I check that ? > >>In that case, a

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:15 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit : > F > > Assuming I understand the probelm correctly, that is that the bios clock > keeps correct time, but the linux system time drifts, Exacly, > you could try > using the clock= kernel parameter, which specifies what timesource t

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > > >>do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? IE clock down if there is >>low load and clock up if there is high load? > > > I don't think so (it'

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: >Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:16 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : > > >>also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, >>then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) >>Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hour

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:16 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : > also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, > then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) > Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it will write correct > drift

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : > do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? IE clock down if there is > low load and clock up if there is high load? I don't think so (it's not a laptop). How do I check that ? > In that case, activate HPET (high precision t

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread William Kenworthy
also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it will write correct drift and adjustment values. BilkK On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 13:51 +0200, Dirk Ra

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the > hwclock stays at the correct time. > > Anyone knows how to avoid this ? > > (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) > >

[gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o