[ntp:questions] Re: Massive Jitter & Drift Preventing Syncronization?

Anthony DeRobertis netnews at derobert.net
Sat Dec 24 03:58:23 UTC 2005


On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:14:10 +0000, Dan Check wrote:

> I'm running into terrible system clock problems with a Sun Fire X2100  
> running a Debian etch kernel (2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Wed Sep 28  
> 02:57:49 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux).  The system clock falls out of  
> sync really aggressively -- at a rate of a couple of minutes every  
> hour.  Any help on this would be hugely appreciated.

There are bugs with time keeping on amd64 chips, especially dual-core
chips, which are fixed in newer kernels. Try 2.6.14 from unstable, I think
it is fixed in 2.6.14.

[My amd64 dual-core box has a offset of >500ppm due to these bugs; I can't
upgrade to 2.6.14 due to sound breaking (mine is a desktop, not a server)]




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