On Thursday 10 February 2005 20:49, jdow wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> On Thursday 10 February 2005 17:47, Peter Kiem wrote:
>> >>>There is also a cpuspeed ticked on in ntsysv so could that be
>> >>> an issue?
>> >>
>> >> Its a possibility, can you turn it off? OTOH, I'd certainly
>> >> think that if it was being called, it would be shown to be
>> >> loaded according to an lsmod. But I'd still turn it off and
>> >> reboot just to check.
>> >
>> >Disabled it and rebooted but it didn't make a difference :(
>>
>> Thats what I was araid of. JoAnne talked me into turning off the
>> apic in my kernel, and handheld me into getting ntp to run (I
>> think) and I've set my tickadj back to the default of 10000, but I
>> think thats going to have to come down, its a couple of seconds
>> ahead of my watch in about 20 minutes.
>>
>> Do you have apic on in your kernel build?
>
>Give it some time, Gene. It seems to be far enough off it may take
>a day or so to get down to 2ms type errors. (And if you have ntpdate
>running please be nice to yourself and turn it off. It will screw
>up the feedback loop ntp uses to average out bad data.)
It is, and I assume the same caveat holds for fooling with tickadj
and/or its server list?
>{^_^}
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