[gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

Hi there! I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. When I start ntp, I get frequent "time reset" messages in the log: 200

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

Hi, Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : > I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too > slow. > It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes > per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. Is it physical or virtual environment?

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 16:23:11 schrieb Jil Larner: > Hi, > > Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : > > I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too > > slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 > > minutes per day). This seems to be too much f

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets) [SOLVED]

Hi folks The problem is solved now. Actually, a BIOS upgrade solved the problem. Details: The board is a Asus A3M78-Pro with a AMD 5050e Athlon64 Dual core CPU. Bios version was V0902 with with it was originally shipped. Asus bios notes for that board say that with Version 11xx a bug was fixed