(SOLVED) ntp gone wild

[Luis]

Well, turns out that SMP systems NEED rtc loaded in order to work with
the time of the BIOS. I had rtc compile as a module (which is the
default way for Ubuntu Stock kernels as well).

According to the kernel documentation:

If you run Linux on a multiprocessor machine and said Y to
"Symmetric Multi Processing" above, you should say Y here to read
and set the RTC in an SMP compatible fashion.

In short, Ubuntu's stock kernels should have compile-in rtc modules if
they have SMP enabled (which they do).

Now, David, read below:

On 5/17/06, David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:47:03AM -0400, Luis wrote:
> >
> > * Starting NTP server ...    [ ok ]
> > $> lsproc ntp
> >     PID USER   RSS  COMMAND
> > 31204 root    3708  /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -u 114:114
>
> First a question: where did you get that lsproc command?  I couldn't
> find it at http://packages.ubuntu.com/.
>

One of my small inventions:
http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=lsproc

You can get all my (public) scripts from that page:
http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/

Or you can simply get a tarball that I use to distribute my
Bash/Mutt/Vim and Scripts to other hosts (think cluster). If you want
the link (or anybody else) email me directly for a link: lemsx1 is my
user, at the mail server gmail.com. ;-)

[snip]

> IIRC ntpd will not sync if the hardware clock drifts by more than
> 500ppm (parts per million).  Two checks with ntpdate a couple of hours
> apart (with ntpd stopped, of course) should show whether it's inside
> that range or not.
>
> If your clock is drifting badly I've a bit of a shot in the dark.
> I had a laptop a while back running Gentoo and the clock drifted
> wildly.  Stopping apm fixed it and, when acpi had developed so that
> it supported my laptop, switching to acpi fixed it permenently.

Thanks for your help. I read that much from the NTP documentation and
after a week of googling. I had to go back to the basics to see my
main issue -- the README.Debian file had my answer.

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Luis Mondesi
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