i386/123462: clock is to fast

[Rui Paulo]

Rene Maroufi wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR i386/123462; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Rene Maroufi <info at maroufi.net>
> To: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
> Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: i386/123462: clock is to fast
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:56:54 +0200
> 
>  On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:26:46PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>  > ntp is designed to compensate for that sort of drift, but it should be 
>  > run continuously: the best setup is to run ntpdate once on boot to make 
>  > any large adjustments but also to run ntpd so it can track and correct 
>  > any drift.
>  
>  No, I tested this with ntpd too, but ntpd can't correct the time. The
>  time difference between the real time and the PC clock grows with ntpd
>  too.
>  

Can you boot with "kern.hz=100" and check whether or not it makes a 
difference?

Thanks,
-- 
Rui Paulo