On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:25:59 -0800 Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote:
> The rate at which this machine is losing time is probably exceeding the ~50 > seconds per day that NTPd is willing to correct without extreme measures (ie, > it has to step time rather than drift-correct). > You might help it maintain > a more sane idea of time by using at least 4 timeservers. Hmm, ok that iis something I can try. > You might take a look at 'vmstat -i' and look out for an interrupt storm, but > it's possible your hardware's clock is simply busted. AFAICT, vmstat -i looks ok: r...@kg-f2# uptime 1:23PM up 18:31, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 r...@kg-f2# vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 36 0 irq6: fdc0 1 0 irq16: siis0 ohci0+ 408 0 irq22: atapci0 856338 12 cpu0: timer 133347678 1999 irq256: re0 234087 3 cpu1: timer 133337654 1999 Total 267776202 4016 -- Regards, Torfinn _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"