Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 14:43 -, Neil Dawkins wrote: Carlos, I had a similar problem on one of my 10.3 servers. I had to reset /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource (in this case to jiffies). To list

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-13 Thread Roger Hayter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 18:39 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 17:29:41 Carlos E. R. wrote: Because of this: 4Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2. What is C2? A power

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-13 at 21:38 -, Roger Hayter wrote: I don't think it is directly related to your problem, but as an example where the Linux system clock is not good enough for ntp I have a machine runing SuSE 9.3 which gains 0.28

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 01:05 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: Not yet. I think I will compile the kernel tomorrow: it takes about three hours in this machine. So, what happened Carlos. Any change? Not yet, I couldn't... however, I have

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 12:41 +0100, I wrote: ... Less than half a second of error, with no network! This is indeed surprising. It seems that my computer works better with the 'tsc' clocksource than with the 'acpi_pm' one. Now the problem is

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-08 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 08 December 2007 17:29:41 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 12:41 +0100, I wrote: ... Less than half a second of error, with no network! This is indeed surprising. It seems that my computer works better with the 'tsc' clocksource than with the 'acpi_pm' one.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - seems solved

2007-12-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-08 at 18:39 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 08 December 2007 17:29:41 Carlos E. R. wrote: Because of this: 4Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2. What is C2? A power state. It consumes less

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Neil Dawkins
I had to reset /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource (in this case to jiffies). To list available sources: cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource Do you know of a link or file with documentation on each type of clock? Sorry, found

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:26 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Please, remember that the system time does not use the cmos clock and battery at all. That's a

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 08:54 +0100, Frank Fiene wrote: Sorry for intervening, i haven't read the whole thread! Do you run Linux in a VM infrastructure like VMware? No... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 08:47 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 02:16 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: You see how the resets increase just the very day I upgraded to 10.3? It is thus a demonstration that it is a software problem. I

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 03:31 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: In your first post, one of your own logfile excerpts shows a line where it is syncing to a strata 10 source. Every line after that shows attempts to re-sync to a strata 2 source, with very

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:15 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: I seem to recall that you can adjust the drift of the system clock within ntp. I don't know if this will cure your problems, but it can't hurt to check. The file is

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Your logs says that when NTP looses the network connection, Yes. it is syncing to the CMOS clock. No. You are confusing the system clock with the CMOS clock -

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 03:31 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Your logs says that when NTP looses the network connection, Yes. it is syncing to the CMOS clock. No. You are confusing the system clock with the CMOS clock - which is running

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 19:35 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: The only thing I did was to force the kernel to use the 'tsc' clock instead of the 'acpi_pm' clocksource it was using: mine is set to jiffy, but i'm still on 10.1 x86_64 jiffy

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync - it's not the CMOS clock

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 00:42 +0100, I wrote: I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. Some suggested that the CMOS clock could be running bad.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 06 December 2007 08:39:31 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 20:34 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: I read a bugzilla at the NTP site, and it appears they think the linux kernel is broken regarding time adjustment and don't want to hear anything linux related Have you

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 18:26 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: It does sound like your driftfile is messed up. Which one? There are two. /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift? Certainly it is. I did try removing it to force NTP to recalculate it. No effect.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 14:56 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: As the problem started the very same day I upgraded to suse 10.3, that points to software. I note that you keep stating that you UPGRADED from 10.2 to 10.3. Does this mean a NEW

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 16:45 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: Have you disabled: [*] Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks) this is new in 10.3 comparing to 10.2. Not yet. I think I will compile the kernel tomorrow: it takes about three hours in this machine.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-07-07 19:06]: pending with some logs of this, I'll send it promptly. The only thing I did was to force the kernel to use the 'tsc' clock instead of the 'acpi_pm' clocksource it was using: mine is set to

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 00:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: This is precisely why NTP was invented -- it solves this problem by obtaining time from calibrated time servers, and also takes into account network latency. Level 0 Don't you

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Billie Walsh wrote: Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks. The way it was explained was that when system use was high and resources were strained the clock was the last thing to get

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Basil Chupin
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 00:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: This is precisely why NTP was invented -- it solves this problem by obtaining time from calibrated time servers, and also takes into account network latency. Level

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root, from the command line?

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Neil Dawkins
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root, from the command line? You know, the old ntpdate

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread A. den Oudsten
Neil Dawkins wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root, from the command line? You

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Smits
On December 6, 2007 05:54:39 am Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root, from the

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root,

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Robert Smits wrote: On December 6, 2007 05:54:39 am Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root,

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Sloan
Carlos E. R. wrote: The problem is that NTP can't keep the system clock disciplined, it strays off as soon as NTP looses the network peers, and not a second or two, but several minutes. It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem. Just out of curiosity, are you running the stock suse

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 00:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: This is precisely why NTP was invented -- it solves this problem by obtaining time from calibrated time servers, and also takes into account network latency. Level

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Ed McCanless
Neil Dawkins wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Carlos, I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time manually, as root, from the command line? You

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:26 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Please, remember that the system time does not use the cmos clock and battery at all. That's a different clock

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Please, remember that the system time does not use the cmos clock and battery at all. That's a different clock altogether. Plus, the cmos clock is running fine, I'm checking it at the moment. ... at all ...? I don't think this is

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 09:52 -0800, Sloan wrote: It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem. Just out of curiosity, are you running the stock suse kernel, or did you install something newer. I'd never had any problem with ntp on the

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 14:43 -, Neil Dawkins wrote: Carlos, I had a similar problem on one of my 10.3 servers. I had to reset /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource (in this case to jiffies). To list

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 09:02 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem. Actually, it looks way more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Normally I can run any of my systems for more than a month

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Billie Walsh
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 00:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: This is precisely why NTP was invented -- it solves this problem by obtaining time from calibrated time servers, and also takes into account

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:38, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:26 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Please, remember that the system time does not use the cmos clock and battery at all. ... ... at all

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Joseph Loo
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 02:30 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 12:11 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Don't you understand that NTP can not adjust my system clock and quits? Yes I do. I was explaining NTP it to

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 12:28 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Changing the CMOS battery would be simpler, and costs less than lunch in a restaurant. The system time is not affected by the CMOS battery at all. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 06 December 2007 07:22:32 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: I have tried several frequency settings, from 250 (default) to 1000. No appreciable difference regarding this problem. I read a bugzilla at the NTP site, and it appears they think the linux kernel is broken regarding time

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 12:11 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Don't you understand that NTP can not adjust my system clock and quits? Yes I do. I was explaining NTP it to Billie Walsh, who didn't seem to understand that NTP is a method of

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:49 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: It does sound like your driftfile is messed up. Which one? There are two. /var/lib/ntp/drift/ntp.drift? Certainly it is. I did try removing it to force NTP to recalculate it. No

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:47 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: I believe that the CMOS clock is updated when you shutdown. There is a specific routine that synchronize the cmos clock. Yes, that is correct. Have a look here - it is old, but mostly

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 12:20 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Your logs says that when NTP looses the network connection, Yes. it is syncing to the CMOS clock. No. You are confusing the system clock with the CMOS clock - which is running

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:58 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Not really. I have been using this same machine without permanent network, and thus, no NTP, for years, and the clock drift was about a second or two per day. Then you have the

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 20:34 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: I read a bugzilla at the NTP site, and it appears they think the linux kernel is broken regarding time adjustment and don't want to hear anything linux related Have you disabled: [*]

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Joseph Loo
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 02:38 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:26 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Please, remember that the system time does not use

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Basil Chupin
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 17:58 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Not really. I have been using this same machine without permanent network, and thus, no NTP, for years, and the clock drift was about a second or two per day.

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread David C. Rankin
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 09:02 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem. Actually, it looks way more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Normally I can run any of my systems for more than a month without being more

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 02:16 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-06 at 09:02 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem. Actually, it looks way more like a hardware problem than a software

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-06 Thread Frank Fiene
On Freitag 07 Dezember 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: [...] I have tried several frequency settings, from 250 (default) to 1000. No appreciable difference regarding this problem. I read a bugzilla at the NTP site, and it appears they think the linux kernel is broken regarding time adjustment

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Howorth
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Tue, 04 Dec 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks. The way it was explained was that when system use was high and

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Tue, 04 Dec 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks. The way it was explained was that when system use was high and resources were strained the clock was the last thing to get

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Tue, 04 Dec 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 17:41 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: grep time reset /var/log/ntp | less I get 24 Oct 19:41:38 ntpd[3347]: time reset -0.130426 s 29

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 06:03:54 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: don't know where you got that from, but ever since the IBM AT, PC's have had a hardware clock on the mainboard, independent of the OS or user programs. The only

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: don't know where you got that from, but ever since the IBM AT, PC's have had a hardware clock on the mainboard, independent of the OS or user programs. The only thing that can make

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Sloan
Rajko M. wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 06:03:54 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: don't know where you got that from, but ever since the IBM AT, PC's have had a hardware clock on the mainboard, independent of the OS or

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 09:52:43 pm Carlos E. R. wrote: The thing is, I don't know how these settings were in 10.2 or earlier. It was not [*] Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks) That means disabling this, and enabling some of fixed will bring in the same state as 10.2. That doesn't

[opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I wonder if any body has the same problem - the check is simple, run this grep command: grep time

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I believe there must be a kernel problem or ntp problem in 10.3. Excellent work, Carlos, someone on PCLinux told me of a similar problem

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 01:05 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I believe there must be

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I wonder if any body has the same problem - the check is simple, run this grep command: grep time reset /var/log/ntp | less

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Joseph Loo
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: Hi, I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I wonder if any body has the same problem - the check is simple,

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 17:41 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: grep time reset /var/log/ntp | less I get 24 Oct 19:41:38 ntpd[3347]: time reset -0.130426 s 29 Oct 18:20:20 ntpd[3433]: time

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Billie Walsh
Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks. The way it was explained was that when system use was high and resources were strained the clock was the last thing to get updated. Thus, it looses time. I'm sure it isn't

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Anderson
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 17:41 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: grep time reset /var/log/ntp | less I get 24 Oct 19:41:38 ntpd[3347]: time reset -0.130426 s 29 Oct 18:20:20 ntpd[3433]: time reset -0.145680 s 8 Nov