Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

[Bram Senders <bram@luon.net>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi Bram, Hi All
> 
> Bram, I'm not an expert for time setting procedures on Linux. The
> following is just a glimpse on what I might have learned on Linux time
> setting routines over the last few years ...
<snip>

> *** 4: I'd suggest to stop ntpd. I does not seem to be necessary to me
>        as long as one has 'ntpdate' and hwclock on a system. I'd try
>        to keep things as simple as possible.

I had a look at the scripts, and the bugs, and the manpages, and all
this stuff really seems quite complicated to me.  In the end, if I would
do that instead of running ntpd with an adjusted kernel tick parameter
like I do now, I would have to do a lot before I would even understand
all this stuff, and then maybe I would get a situation that works as
well as the current one.  But it's still both a hack, because I don't
think users shouldn have to mess with this stuff, so in the meantime,
I'm happy to keep running ntpd.

Cheers,
Bram