Re: system time "slowing down" ?

From: Odhiambo Washington (wash_at_wananchi.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    * On 28/11/05 18:47 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
    > On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
    > >For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps
    > >lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few
    > >days I see that it's lost quite some hours again?
    > >
    > >What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena
    > >is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall
    > >so I don't doubt it.
    >
    > If your hardware clock loses hours over the course of a few days, the
    > CMOS time-of-day clock is probably broken. Is ntpd able to keep your
    > clock sane?

    I'll try that option and monitor, since we have a local time server in
    Kenya ;)

    >
    > What does "sysctl kern.timecounter" say?

    beastie# sysctl kern.timecounter
    kern.timecounter.tick: 1
    kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000)
    kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC
    kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 3
    kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 231411
    kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0
    kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0
    kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 337002
    kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 6191
    kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 12350
    kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 392742
    kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 892365
    kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1285111
    kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 1584
    kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0
    kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 7282034
    kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0
    kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0

    -Wash

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