[ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second

Dave Hart hart at ntp.org
Tue Mar 20 02:59:12 UTC 2012


Ron,

I don't know what the heck happened either, but there are a few clues.
 You didn't tell us which version of ntpd you're using or which OS
it's running on.  Skimming the huge ntp.conf for non-comment lines I
see it appears to be some version of Windows.

Take note of the last line in the first loopstats file you sent:

56005 85287.065 -1.#IND00000 -1.#IO 0.003538719 -1.#IND00 3

There is no activity in the corresponding peerstats file to give a
hint what sent your offset and frequency off the deep end.  You might
check the eventlog around the end of the 19th UTC to see if there are
any clues there.

Although it's the first time I've seen such, it appears the offset and
frequency calculations both ended up overflowing.  I would have
guessed bad input should have appeared in peerstats before loopstats
but I didn't find anything unusual.  It does appear the GPS was
unplugged or stopped sending or sent sentences indicating no lock,
based on the last peerstats entry for 127.127.20.5 occurring almost
exactly 5 minutes before the overflow event.

Probably we should just write it off as nominal since the PC is
described as psycho.

Take care,
Dave Hart

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:59, Ron Frazier (NTP)
<timekeepingntplist at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just came home from supper to the most NOT charming experience.  I had
> left with my PC clock syncing nicely to my Globalsat BU-353 GPS.  When I
> came home, I found the clock said Aug 2014 and visually could see that the
> clock was advancing at a rate of about 2 HR per actual second.  The Meinberg
> screen said it was locked into the local clock and the Meinberg screen
> appeared to be updating about twice per second rather than once ever 10
> seconds.  It said that the preferred clock was LOCL 127.127.1.1.  I don't
> know what the heck happened, but these anomalies are getting really old.
>  Hopefully the Sure board will do better.  Oh, by the way, I shut down NTPD
> and the clock kept advancing the same way.  2 reboots appear to have fixed
> it.  I've removed LOCL from the config file.  Here are some links to some
> log and conf files if anyone is interested.  Note the dates at the end.
>  I've got 1200 log files in between these start and end dates.
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/ntp.conf%20psycho%20clock
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20120319-2-above-priority-gpgga96-poll-3-6%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20120320%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20120321%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20120322%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20120323%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20140112%20psycho%20clock   note
> the date far into the future
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/loopstats.20140113%20psycho%20clock
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20120319-2-above-priority-gpgga96-poll-3-6%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20120320%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20120321%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20120322%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20120323%20psycho%20clock
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20140824%20psycho%20clock   note
> the date far into the future
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/peerstats.20140825%20psycho%20clock
>
> Sincerely Frustrated,
>
> Ron
>
>
> --
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, don't be concerned.
> I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy mailing lists and
> such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.  If you need a
> reply and have not heard from me in 1 - 2 weeks, send your message again.)
>
> Ron Frazier
> timekeepingdude AT c3energy.com
>
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