Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Utterback
Rick Jones wrote: > *) is that just the T5120 or is it more generally the T5X20? > > *) is the T5X40 affected I will affect any system that has spread-spectrum EMI mitigation. So, I would guess that yes, they would all be affected, but I don't know for sure, I only had access to the one system

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-26 Thread Brian Utterback
Fran Horan wrote: > Thanks Brian. > > Can you provide a firmware rev number where the fix was first introduced ? > Is there a firmware tunable to disable frequency modulation ? > > Thanks, > > Fran Horan > JHU/APL > > No, I don't know when it was introduced, but since the problem was the sp

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-26 Thread Fran Horan
> > Do not even think about using NTP on a T1000, T2000, or T5120 until > you have the latest firmware patch installed (nah-nah, wasn't hardware > OR software. Or maybe both?). There is a bug in all three that > causes the firmware to report an incorrect clock frequency to the > kernel on boot u

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-25 Thread Rick Jones
Brian Utterback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do not even think about using NTP on a T1000, T2000, or T5120 until > you have the latest firmware patch installed (nah-nah, wasn't > hardware OR software. Or maybe both?). There is a bug in all three > that causes the firmware to report an incorrect cl

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-21 Thread David L. Mills
Brian, Naughty Sun. Cheaper to wiggle the clock rather than shield the box. I can understand the need to do this for the CPU clock, but I thought the timer interrupt was driven by a different oscillator. The problem is that the phase jitter would interfere with the TSC (or equivalent) timer in

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-20 Thread Brian Utterback
Hal Murray wrote: > [drift > 500 ppm] > >> It's almost certainly a hardware problem. Ntpd is telling you that the >> clock is gaining, or losing, more than about 43 seconds (500 parts per >> million) per day. 500 PPM is the maximum that ntpd can handle. > > It could easily be a software screw

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-20 Thread Hal Murray
[drift > 500 ppm] >It's almost certainly a hardware problem. Ntpd is telling you that the >clock is gaining, or losing, more than about 43 seconds (500 parts per >million) per day. 500 PPM is the maximum that ntpd can handle. It could easily be a software screwup. Unless you know it works on

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-19 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Conan wrote: > We are testing Solaris 10 images on a variety of hardware. We discovered a > problem which seems to only appear on T5120 (Sun4V architecture) and darned > if I can figure out why. > > Every 7 - 12 minutes I get these log entries > 19 Jun 09:41:41 ntpd[21419]: system event 'event_

Re: [ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Conan, Have you seen http://suport.ntp.org/Support and the 'Troubleshooting' section there? -- Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/lis

[ntp:questions] Frequency Error on Sun4v

2008-06-19 Thread Conan
We are testing Solaris 10 images on a variety of hardware. We discovered a problem which seems to only appear on T5120 (Sun4V architecture) and darned if I can figure out why. Every 7 - 12 minutes I get these log entries 19 Jun 09:41:41 ntpd[21419]: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04) s