On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 00:11, Frank Sorenson wrote: > Michael, here are a couple things to look at. Are you running ntpd > (for those who don't already know, Network Time Protocol is used to > synchronize a computer's time with another time source reference)? If so, > what source(s) are you using? Could NTP be fighting between your sources > (not sure if it happens, but talk about a great way to DOS--get everyone > to trust your server, then poison it).
I'm using your time server (time.cs.byu.edu) so I hope it's not poisoned! > > What are the results of "date", "hwclock", and "ntpdc -s"? Hmm. Don't know right now the clock is working. I'm not using my external disk. I'll try it tomorrow and see if it starts misbehaving again. date has always returned the correct time. I think this is because I can't run it over and over fast enough to catch the jump (the jump occurs once ever second or so and it's usually for only about 250-500 ms. I'll have to try hwclock. ntpdc shows normal syncing against time.cs.byu.edu. Since I've been running ntp for the last year off your server, I imagine it has computed a pretty accurate time adjustment and now only syncs every hour or so. since date calls gettimeofday(), I imagine if I could run it over and over again fast enough it would pick up the change. > > Does your system use any sort of speed-stepping? I suppose that if the > system speed changes, it's possible that the count could get messed up. Not that I know of. I'm going to make sure I know what triggers the problem (like is it the drive?) before I go much further. Then I'll probably have to contact the driver maintainer and find out if there are any issues that would be caused by the firewire code. thanks. Michael > > Just a couple thoughts. > > Frank > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK > CSR Computer Science Department > Brigham Young University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
