On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Patrick Domack wrote:

> Sounds like the same issue I had with one of my servers, everything  
> ran fine, I moved it to a datacenter, and ntp couldn't keep the time  
> in sync at all, moved it back, and it was fine again. It was a dual  
> cpu computer, and the default timing method used in the kernel on  
> freebsd that I was using, kept changing depending on what cpu that  
> thread ran on at any given time, giving me the same log messages  
> your getting:
>
>> Jan 22 07:15:48 dobby ntpd[51979]: kernel time sync status change  
>> 6001
>> Jan 22 07:50:10 dobby ntpd[51979]: kernel time sync status change  
>> 2001
>> Jan 22 11:00:35 dobby ntpd[51979]: kernel time sync status change  
>> 6001
>> Jan 22 11:49:04 dobby ntpd[51979]: kernel time sync status change  
>> 2001

My system is a single processor, but it as FreeBSD.

> I found that for freebsd atleast, there where 3 different clock  
> source options you can configure, and when I changed it, everything  
> behaved correctly.
>
> I added this into /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> kern.timecounter.hardware=TSC

I will look into that.  Killing off bittorrent helped a bit, but  
didn't fully resolve the problem.  Though things improved greatly  
after I reset state on my firewall/router.  Still there are some odd  
hiccoughs, and you may have identified the problem.

Thank you.

-j

-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

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