[techtalk] losing time
Olivier Tharan
olive at minet.net
Tue Oct 24 23:44:21 EST 2000
Le 22 octobre 2000 a 10:31, Mary E. Mulderrig a écrit :
> I have a quick question. I am using Red Hat 6.2
> and have noticed that over the past ~week my system clock
> is losing time. This is only apparent when I am in root mode.
How much time have you been losing?
Also, is your computer a SMP one (multi-processor)? SMP is known to
drift in a dramatic way if CONFIG_RTC is not set. If you are using a
stock kernel, it should be fine.
In either case, you should consider running (in order of importance):
- 'rdate' to a nearby, on time server (in a crontab);
- 'ntpdate';
- 'xntp'.
These methods are increasingly precise, and increasingly difficult to
set up.
olive
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