David,

The problem is that they start in sync and over the course of a day drift that 
far apart despite having NTP running. We're not sure why NTP isn't correcting 
it along the way. Though at this point, we are looking at a firmware bug.

Thanks!
Bob

On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:30 AM, "David J Taylor" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> The problem stems from one of the two (identical) machines drifting off by
> 60-70 seconds per day. So a few ms here and there are ok.
> []
> Bob
> ==================================
> 
> Bob,
> 
> NTP is normally limited to a +/- 500 parts per million correction - 43 
> seconds per day.  You may be operating outside the range NTP is expecting to 
> handle.  If the clock offset is a stable value of 60-70 seconds per day you 
> can bias NTP to correct within +/- 500 ppm of that drift.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
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