[ntp:questions] Large offset and lots of time resets

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Wed Feb 23 21:05:18 UTC 2011


In article <Xns9E95DA199C4695r68mtnbtdvsdr at 194.109.133.242>,
 Maarten Deen <zqrra at kf4nyy.ay> writes:
...
>23 Feb 20:42:53 ntpd[27664]: time reset +2.421296 s
>23 Feb 20:52:05 ntpd[27664]: synchronized to 217.67.231.25, stratum 2
>23 Feb 20:58:31 ntpd[27664]: time reset +2.356457 s
>23 Feb 21:04:48 ntpd[27664]: synchronized to 217.67.231.25, stratum 2
>23 Feb 21:14:26 ntpd[27664]: time reset +2.400477 s
>
>This goes on and on and on. And regularly ntp stops having connection, 
>reach goes to 1 and builds up again. Never that it is a poll that's been 
>missed, it is always back to 1 as if ntpd has started itself up again.
>
>I'm using ntp 4.2.4p4 on a Ubuntu box. Linux kernel 2.6.24.
>
>What's wrong in this setup?

My guess is that the clock on your system is broken.  Are you
using some sort of power saving that is changing the CPU frequency?

Have you tried a different clocksource?
  (google for >linux clocksource<)


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