Re: Slow system clock?
>>>>> "J" == Jason Christensen <jchristensen@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
J> Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel)
J> clock is slow? I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is
J> maintaining a time that does not drift more than a CMOS clock
J> normally does, but my kernel clock will lose approximately 4
J> hours in every 9.
If your CMOS (aka hwclock) is reasonably accurate, try running
`adjtimexconfig` after getting the time correct.
Because you have such a large drift, you may need to repeat the
process a few times (a few hours apart) before the clock runs
acceptably. The values computed are saved into a startup script.
You would need to do this first, even if you were planning on
running NTP to sync the time. The algorithms in ntpd assume that the
inherent clock drift is "small", for some value of small.
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