[ntp:questions] losing time fast

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Mon Jul 9 20:44:55 UTC 2012


On 7/9/2012 2:14 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> I noticed the clock on my main desktop was off by 28 minutes today and it
> increased to 45 minutes. I resync'd with ntpdate manually and it has drifted
> behind again about 7 minutes in the last few hours.

You do not mention the direction of the error which *may* be 
significant!  If the clock is "slow", it suggests that something may be
eating your CPU while running at high priority!

If the clock is "fast", nothing suggests itself to me!

>
> I am using ntp version 4.2.4p7 which was installed with Slackware on Linux
> kernel 2.6.29.6. Until today the clock on this system has always matched the
> clocks of the other machines on my network. The system has been running for
> several years essentially unchanged.
>
> The only thing that changed (that I know of) is I added a new machine to my
> network recently. Its clock matches all the other clocks. I don't see any
> unusual messages from ntpd in my log or messages files on the system with
> the problem. One system has problems, all others appear to be fine and have
> synchronized clocks.
>
> I realize this isn't much information but I don't know what to look for. Can
> anyone tell me how to troubleshoot this? Thank you.
>




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