* On 28/11/05 18:47 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps > >lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few > >days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? > > > >What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena > >is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall > >so I don't doubt it. > > If your hardware clock loses hours over the course of a few days, the > CMOS time-of-day clock is probably broken. Is ntpd able to keep your > clock sane?
I'll try that option and monitor, since we have a local time server in Kenya ;) > > What does "sysctl kern.timecounter" say? beastie# sysctl kern.timecounter kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) i8254(0) dummy(-1000000) kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC kern.timecounter.nsetclock: 3 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrotime: 231411 kern.timecounter.ngetnanotime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetbintime: 0 kern.timecounter.ngetmicrouptime: 337002 kern.timecounter.ngetnanouptime: 6191 kern.timecounter.ngetbinuptime: 12350 kern.timecounter.nmicrotime: 392742 kern.timecounter.nnanotime: 892365 kern.timecounter.nbintime: 1285111 kern.timecounter.nmicrouptime: 1584 kern.timecounter.nnanouptime: 0 kern.timecounter.nbinuptime: 7282034 kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 kern.timecounter.smp_tsc: 0 -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ You're at the end of the road again. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"