Re: Clock running slow
alanbrown@pacbell.net said:
> I also saw this problem on a suite of machines that were being used
> for distributed performance testing. We had xntpd running but the
> clocks still lost too much accuracy too quickly. We ended up setting
> up a process that automatically ran ntpdate every 10 seconds on each
> of the machines. It solved our immediate problem, but it also
> demonstrated that time was definitely being lost hand over fist on
> some machines but not on others as ntpdate was succeeding and was
> showing that the clocks could lost around a millisecond every second
> which would come to 20 minutes every 13 days. We never tracked down
> the cause though.
I have had problems with computers losing time when APM is enabled - so much
so I automatically turn it off whenever I install.
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