John Hasler wrote:
Frank writes:
My ntp client changes clock (by small amount) at any time:
Jul 25 05:29:38 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by 0.098724s
Jul 25 05:31:43 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by 0.038991s
Jul 25 06:13:38 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by -0.037131s
Jul 25 15:01:52 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by -0.112429s

Ken writes:
These do seem to be larger values than you might expect from a clock
conditioned with ntpd.  Is it a VM or is there something going on that
would stop or suspend your system?

There is certainly something wrong there.


System is not a VM; it runs 24/7 hosting for a few simple domains. It runs OpenBSD, not Linux. I believe OpenBSD has it's own ntpd implementation. I read once that the amount of time mentioned is how much time clock needs to be changed, not how much the clock will actually be changed. I know nothing about ntpd internals; thanks for letting me hijack this thread. The log messages may be out-of-context, since I excluded frequency changes. Still something wrong?

Jul 25 00:13:25 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by -0.038453s
Jul 25 00:42:25 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -10.296223 to -20.774345ppm
Jul 25 02:38:31 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by 0.039182s
Jul 25 04:56:29 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by 3.332808 to -17.441537ppm
Jul 25 05:29:38 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by 0.098724s
Jul 25 05:31:43 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by 0.038991s
Jul 25 06:13:38 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by -0.037131s
Jul 25 08:26:12 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -5.876526 to -23.318063ppm Jul 25 11:07:08 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by 16.235236 to -7.082827ppm
Jul 25 15:01:52 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting local clock by -0.112429s
Jul 25 15:38:06 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -9.112840 to -16.195667ppm Jul 25 20:42:03 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by 1.838351 to -14.357316ppm Jul 26 05:57:41 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.485347 to -14.842663ppm Jul 26 15:48:01 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.130635 to -14.973298ppm Jul 26 23:51:48 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.632588 to -15.605885ppm Jul 27 09:14:44 bax ntpd[10269]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.761208 to -14.844677ppm
Jul 27 11:33:29 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting local clock by 0.332560s
Jul 27 11:57:09 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.180636 to -15.025316ppm Jul 27 12:16:16 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.153771 to -14.871545ppm Jul 27 12:38:36 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.314905 to -15.186450ppm Jul 27 22:30:47 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.058928 to -15.245378ppm Jul 28 22:00:57 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.508728 to -14.750045ppm Jul 29 07:09:05 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.056698 to -14.693347ppm Jul 29 21:25:01 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.233626 to -14.926974ppm Jul 30 06:28:33 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.255362 to -15.182336ppm Jul 30 15:45:17 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.291147 to -14.891189ppm Jul 31 11:57:51 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.198529 to -14.725782ppm Aug 1 08:47:12 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.063213 to -14.806622ppm Aug 2 12:19:10 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.096080 to -14.759072ppm Aug 3 01:30:19 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.353416 to -15.112489ppm Aug 3 08:10:34 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by 0.251130 to -14.861359ppm Aug 3 20:29:11 bax ntpd[5857]: adjusting clock frequency by -0.105335 to -14.966694ppm
Aug  4 07:22:22 bax ntpd[27189]: adjusting local clock by -0.097095s
Aug 4 07:49:26 bax ntpd[27189]: adjusting clock frequency by -2.970136 to -17.898726ppm Aug 4 08:04:04 bax ntpd[27189]: adjusting clock frequency by 2.495076 to -15.403651ppm

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