Re: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/29/03

  • Next message: Uwe Doering: "Re: kern/59719 Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP"
    Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:19:06 -0800
    To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
    
    
    

    On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:04:16AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    Content-Description: signed data
    > On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:57, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
    > > "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
    > > > as to ntpd/timed ... don't run either ... run ntpdate twice a day (11:59
    > > > and 23:59)
    > >
    > > Don't Do That. It will lead to all kinds of trouble that will take
    > > you ages to figure out. Really, ntpd is so ridiculously easy to set
    > > up (especially if you already have ntpdate working) that there is no
    > > reason not to use it.
    >
    > FWIW, it can reproduce this on two machines (one 4.9-RELEASE, one 5.1-RELEASE)
    > which both run ntpd. Takes some 10 minutes on both before the first steps
    > backwards turn up.
    >
    > Unfortunately, both machines aren't very good datapoints because both have
    > pretty customized kernels and have -Os and -march optimized worlds/kernels...
    >
    > Both have kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast, too.

    Are all affected machines multi-processor?

    Kris

    
    



  • Next message: Uwe Doering: "Re: kern/59719 Re: 4.9 Stable Crashes on SuperMicro with SMP"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...
      ... It will lead to all kinds of trouble that will take ... ntpd is so ridiculously easy to set ... Are all affected machines multi-processor? ... Kris ...
      (freebsd-current)
    • Re: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...
      ... On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:57, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: ... It will lead to all kinds of trouble that will take ... ntpd is so ridiculously easy to set ... pretty customized kernels and have -Os and -march optimized worlds/kernels... ...
      (freebsd-current)
    • Re: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...
      ... On Saturday 29 November 2003 05:57, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: ... It will lead to all kinds of trouble that will take ... ntpd is so ridiculously easy to set ... pretty customized kernels and have -Os and -march optimized worlds/kernels... ...
      (freebsd-stable)