From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760728AbYDNUqU (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753471AbYDNUqM (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:12 -0400 Received: from web52508.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.191]:32163 "HELO web52508.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752271AbYDNUqL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:11 -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=YWR82UKYjfb5N0D2jTy2S6LxZrKC5ClVEzMp97oqtExVNOPXKdcuS6witDq9ZJ1zV++l8Z3PQ+uVYqR8LoJD2CwhkJIScacERrQvepaJI9B2a/ZKeSTrmzXkVpmCDNrluUEeJir/4G3i8geetAem7N1nDdV6GQpBUzZKugGLPBw=; X-YMail-OSG: IXKKLP0VM1lQa0.v2SYKklBqWxTK31Kav_yF_OAUE1k7cUs9TaJ791QFV4Qrjj6wT5qqARkVmn05ZGuec0hG0c1uMBEep5KAd3SPB8RKCfju6QsrOJ0- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:46:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Perkel Subject: Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem? To: Chris Snook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4803AD83.4030807@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <436294.91693.qm@web52508.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- 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. > > -- Chris > OK - but do I have bad hardware or is there a problem with the kernel? 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