Re: setting system clock-rate

["Cyrille Vladimirov" <kiro%kircho.net@localhost>]

Hi Kristoff!
why shouldn't you try with ntpdate. just put this small sh script into
crontab and start it every 10 or 20 minutes

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
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(replace us.pool.ntp.org it should be your some appr. time server in your
time zone, for example be.pool.ntp.org)
Cyrille


On 3/1/2009, "Kristoff Bonne" <kristoff.bonne%skypro.be@localhost> wrote:

>Hi All,
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>I have installed netbsd 4.0.1 on an old PC (pentium III, 1 Ghz).
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>Due to some reason (probably hardware I guess), the system-clock runs
>about 3 % to fast. The RTV-clock is correct, but the system-clock goes 1
>to 2 seconds more in advance every minute.
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>The time-difference is that large, that ntpd is unable to sync.
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>Using debian and "adjtimex", I managed to get the "tick" and
>"frequency"-values to correct this:
>tick: 9738, frequency: -1503002
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>So, how do I configure netbsd to change the system clock-rate. "sysctl
>-w kern.clockrate=9738" doesn't work as that value seams to be read-only.
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>I tried using ntp with copying the value in the driftfile to netbsd
>(-22.934), but that doesn't work neither. (doesn't ntpd use that value
>to set the system-clock rate?)
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>Anybody any idea?
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>Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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