John DeDourek wrote:
Robert wrote:
<<snip my stupidity>>
John, you got me thinking after all this time. The problem WAS indeed kernel related. I had the very same problem when I first installed FC1 last year. The GRUB default kernel was the -smp model. I don't know why it's picked as the default on this single-processor m/b but it is. Only now, we have the added "advantage" of the grub.conf line:
#hiddenmenu
Damn!
The old version is looking like, it did last week:
ntpq> pe
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
xtime.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 14 64 377 70.040 125.551 0.183
+ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso. 2 u 10 64 377 42.383 110.860 0.861
-clock.xmission. .GPS. 1 u 6 64 377 56.133 101.561 1.304
-navobs1.wustl.e .USNO. 1 u 3 64 377 43.116 108.988 2.217
*Tick.UH.EDU .USNO. 1 u 15 64 377 20.861 110.352 1.645
+now.cis.okstate .PSC. 1 u 8 64 377 23.140 109.707 1.800
ntpq>
....with jitter that is just a tad more respectable. :-)
All that remains now is for me to reinstall the ntp and dependencies that came with FC3 and replace the ntp.conf file with one that leaves the stratum 1 servers alone.
Thanks for your interest and for the nudge in the right direction!
