[ntp:questions] slowly gaining time

Jammer ask.me at mail.com
Fri Dec 22 21:52:52 UTC 2006


Jammer wrote:
> Harlan Stenn wrote:
>> With jitter that high you will never sync.
>>
>> I suspect either hardware or OS problems (and possibly BIOS settings).
>>
>> Please see http://ntp.isc.org/Support/TroubleshootingNTP .
>>
>> H
> The internal clock keeps time.
> I set only "server localhost"

The internal clock keeps time IF I do NOT run ntpd.

# ntpq -np
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
  jitter
==============================================================================
  127.0.0.1       .INIT.          16 l    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 
4000.00


Running ntpd causes the machine to gain time. :-(




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