[ntp:questions] ntpd wedged again

A C agcarver+ntp at acarver.net
Tue Feb 14 00:39:39 UTC 2012


On 2/13/2012 16:26, A C wrote:
> On 2/13/2012 15:44, David Lord wrote:
>
>> Recent ntpd is supposed to handle that level of frequency
>> offset but most of my pcs have had the frequency offset
>> adjusted to be < 10 ppm which is done when I build a kernel
>> with "options PPS_SYNC" and "options TIMER_FREQ=119????".
>
> This kernel does have PPS_SYNC enabled but I'm not using it right now
> since I'm still debugging ntpd/libc. I'll start using it next week after
> I know ntpd will survive a week straight.
>
> How do you determine the timer frequency number? Trial and error?

Actually nevermind, TIMER_FREQ is not supported by NetBSD on sparc that 
I can see.  It's not even an option in the configuration file.


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