[Techtalk] Excessive clock drift

[Stephanie Boyd]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:24:24AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have seen it on various systems; basically you have a good clock 
> advancing at the wrong rate.  You can use the adjtimex utility to 
> configure the kernel to expect the particular rate your system clock is 
> actually advancing instead of the default, nominal frequency (you have 
> to set up adjtimex to run on every boot -- it's not a permanent change.)
> 
> Once you have set the rate with adjtimex ntp should be able to catch up.
> 
> This is pretty common; the master crystal in PCs is virtually never 
> calibrated, and sometimes can be off by as much as 2%.

Thanks for the advice - it appears to have done the trick.  

       Regards,
       
       	       Stephanie

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