Re: Dual-core system will not create NTP peers

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

Stephen Olander-Waters wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:16 -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
> > I have discovered the source of the problem: the file 
> > /etc/default/adjtimex had a TICK value of 9750. That's 2.5% less than 
> > the standard value of 10000 and accounts exactly for the clock skew I 
> > observed.
>
> Oh, I wish I'd remembered that file. I had that problem way back in 2003
> when I switched from an old K7 system to a dual Opteron. I used the same
> hard drive and everything. I didn't reinstall. The old value was very
> different from the new value.
>
> Something to keep in mind when upgrading a motherboard.

In this case, I built a system from scratch, using 1's and 0's made out 
of flint, and it's a mystery where that TICK value came from.

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