System clock falls behind quickly on Mac mini G4
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at nsu.ru
Tue Apr 8 14:16:26 UTC 2014
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
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