[ntp:questions] PSYCHO PC clock is advancing at 2 HR per second
unruh
unruh at invalid.ca
Tue Mar 20 04:09:29 UTC 2012
On 2012-03-20, 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
And you have local clock anywhere in the configuration why? It is dumb
as you have discovered.
> 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.
It sounds like the system has reset the timer interrupt advance.
> 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
>
>
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