From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933212AbYDPVrS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933329AbYDPVpF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:45:05 -0400 Received: from web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.189]:40726 "HELO web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933433AbYDPVpB (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:45:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=xbkhv83NxHV7tHuGuATZJyrOp272ovDAUlhtFSjrWkcS6O4wZBon8dgoYmCxt9hi7LXs1MdSqBEI+F/LT2myRkEzb5CA7Q14iszGO5xLpB97wOXKrp/hHo7rcDjjRUoK22rEjHKZ/JZpe0reMGprGfTjqbQI/ovPFBf8MIEAR+g=; X-YMail-OSG: P9K0VQMVM1kE434ba7osKZmdqRm3SrAtLJRRT5M4g6WWQWX5uOhrQMbDpCASagoMxEse4aDwDp.lHMA96B4a4GFTE7uooq8- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:44:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Perkel Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem? To: Bart Van Assche , Chris Snook Cc: Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <414144.49021.qm@web52506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Chris Snook > wrote: > > Marc Perkel wrote: > > > > > My best guess at this time is that the drift of > this > > > computer using the quad core is so great that > the ntpd > > > can't get in sync. Is there any way to make ntpd > more > > > agressive by setting something in ntp.conf? > > > > > > > ntp can correct for 500 ppm drift, which equates > to 1.8 seconds per hour. > > Beyond that you need to run ntpdate or ntpd -gq > from cron to correct it. > > It's better to correct the clock frequency once with > the tickadj or > adjtimex, so you don't have to add ntpdate to cron > and you can still > run ntpd. > > Bart. > ok - thanks. How do I do that? Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter dot com http://www.junkemailfilter.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ