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Re: Time drift in amd64



On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 01:54 +0100, Carsten Prieß wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:28 -0800
> Alex Perry <alex.perry@qm.com> wrote:
> > Once you know what the drift value is, you can tell the kernel (using
> > the adjtime related commands) and it will apply the correction for
> > you.
> I had the problem with x86. Not 8-10/s/h, but 10-15min/h. 
> However the difference isn't constant. I solved the problem with ntp,
> too ... but in my opinion this isn't clean.

Also, keep in mind that if you move your O/S install to a new
motherboard and/or processor, you should zero out the /etc/adjtime
according to the manpage. Don't just delete it or delete all the lines
or NTP will get upset.

It happened to me!
-s

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