<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Rashkae <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@tigershaunt.com">ubuntu@tigershaunt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">drew einhorn wrote:<br>
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> ntp can't fix a clock that is off by more than 7.25 seconds every 10 minutes.<br>
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</div>what is the output of:<br>
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sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>tsc<br><div id=":x3" class="ii gt"></div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and:<br>
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sudo cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>tsc acpi_pm <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm betting your current clocksource is tsc, which the kernel seems to<br>
favor as default on some systems, but just doesn't keep track of time<br>
all that well.<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br clear="all"></div></div>Bingo!<br><br>Now that we know what's wrong. How do we fix it?<br><br>-- <br>Drew Einhorn<br>