David Kelly wrote: > Its PC commodity-grade. Not all that unusual even for stuff sold > claiming to be a "server". This is in no small part why ntpd exists. > > nptd calculates a correction coefficient and (under FreeBSD) stores it > in /var/db/ntpd.drift for use on next start so as to more quickly > establish a lock. > > So in short ntpd calibrates your clock in order to minimize the > corrections required. Is The Right Thing To Do.
We run a large number of FreeBSD servers under vmware. We've seen ntpd silently die, because the drift becomes "insane." What do others do in this situation? (We've resorted to croning ntpdate for VMs.) -- Chris Cowart Network Technical Lead Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT UC Berkeley
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