i386/104867: Clock running at 2x speed of wall clock

Sat May 10 00:30:04 UTC 2008

The following reply was made to PR i386/104867; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeffrey Brower" <Jeff at PointHere.net>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>,
	<Jeff at PointHere.net>
Cc: "'Bruce Cran'" <bruce at cran.org.uk>
Subject: Re: i386/104867: Clock running at 2x speed of wall clock
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 19:58:23 -0400

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 I verified that the timecounter was indeed i8254 after I recompiled with
 that option and it still ran double time.

 Everything I tried failed - even NTP gave up because it was constantly
 slewing.  No one could solve it and I never got an answer so I ended up
 pulling the box and replacing it with a more modern motherboard about a year
 and a half ago and I have had no problems since.

 Frankly, the board was past its prime anyway - but it was fine for a
 dedicated firewall if I could have gotten it to work.  I just needed the
 clock to be right so that the logs would match in case I needed to do
 forensics.

 --  Jeff

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