Re: ntp strangeness
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:30 -0500, Ken Wahl wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:20:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Nothing hugely wrong with that... Talk to pool.ntp.org every 3 or
> > 4 hours, at a weird odd number of minutes past the hour (since most
> > people tend to choose :00, :30, etc). That shouldn't be too bad.
>
> I'm actually pulling it at 51 past the hour from Redhat's public NTP
> server (clock3.redhat.com) since it's right down the street from me. I
> need to pull it hourly as the drift is pretty significant even at 3 or 4
> hour intervals - anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes.
Sounds like your mobo is messed up. My old mobo (a Shuttle SK41G)
drifted ~0.05 every 3 hours. My new board (an Abit KV-81), drifts
more than 1/2 a second every 3 hours.
Also, have you checked chrony? It is an independent implementation
of the ntp protocol.
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