Re: System clock running too fast

From: Benoît Dejean
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 15:46:01 EST


Le mar, 25/05/2004 Ã 16:25 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Benot Dejean wrote:
>
> > Le mar, 25/05/2004 Ã 19:39 +0200, Michael Buesch a Ãcrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got the problem with my server, that the system-clock
> > > is running really fast. It's running over one second too
> > > fast in one hour (aproximately).
> >
> > you should adjust it with adjtimex (there's a debian package)
> >
>
> Ahahh.. Did you accidentally set CONFIG_MELAN in .config? That would
> do about 1 second fast per hour. If not, then do: echo "">/etc/adjtime
> (used to be you could delete it), now I think you
> need to truncate it. Sometimes this file gets corrupt and
> it takes many settings of stime to undue the corrupt-ness.

no

cat /etc/adjtime
-0.541692 1084270031 0.000000
1084270031
LOCAL

before, my /etc/adjtime was empty, i was loosing 4.36s / 24H
i sync my clock every 15days, and the difference is always < 0.1s (-0.04
average)
so i'm pretty happy with it

--
BenoÃt Dejean
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