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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3 "loosing ticks"
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john stultz wrote:
> > I am seeing something similar on my dual Athlon MP 1800 box.
> > 
> > It is running NTP to synchronise with another machine over the LAN,
> > but ntpdc reports that it develops a larger and larger offset relative
> > to the server - ntpd clearly is not managing to regulate the clock.
> 
> Approximately at what rate does it skew? Does ntpdate -b <server> set it
> properly?

I'll keep a note.  It's not very fast, but enough to reach several
tens of seconds after a day's work - enough to break Make over NFS,
that's why I noticed.

It might stop showing up now, as I am now running 2.5.75 on the server too :)

> Are you also seeing the "Loosing too many ticks!" message?

No.

-- Jamie
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