System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:53:12PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev danfe-at-nsu.ru wrote at 21:47 +0700 on Apr 4, 2014:
> > Running ntpd(8) unfortunately does not make things better (well maybe it
> > helps a bit, but clock still drifts away pretty fast).  I guess my only
> > option is to run ntpdate(8) periodically. :-(
> 
> You could try chronyd vs. ntpd - the former works with a larger
> frequency error.  Untested by me.  I also don't think we have a port
> yet.

Thanks for suggestion; I'll take a look into chronyd and report of the
results.

> It may be that your mini G4 may have real clock issues - that would
> require some analysis to determine if that's real or a software bug.
> But chronyd might be a workaround (if it's not too hard to port) until
> someone who is motivated can do a more careful analysis.

True; I'll follow up with verbose dmesg(8) output in a separate email on
this thread; maybe it'll give some clues.

./danfe