Re: [5.99.41] clock skew

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 14:08 Uhr +0100 24.12.2010, BERTRAND Joel wrote:
>       frequency error -590 PPM ! If I reboot the same workstation with
>NetBSD
>4.0.1, ntpd can synchronize system clock.

From my experience, sparc time-keeping quality has gone downhill ever since
the introduction of SMP support in netbsd-2.

From my ss20's message (netbsd-4, 2x SM71):

<snip>
Dec 24 13:47:08 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 85.25.120.47, stratum 2
Dec 24 13:50:31 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 192.53.103.108, stratum 1
Dec 24 13:52:31 pizza ntpd[15329]: time reset -0.183353 s
Dec 24 13:56:59 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 213.198.55.2, stratum 2
Dec 24 13:58:29 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 192.53.103.108, stratum 1
Dec 24 14:00:01 pizza syslogd: restart
Dec 24 14:13:16 pizza ntpd[15329]: time reset -0.395868 s
Dec 24 14:18:32 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 192.53.103.108, stratum 1
Dec 24 14:35:31 pizza ntpd[15329]: time reset -0.373273 s
Dec 24 14:39:55 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 217.157.154.78, stratum 2
Dec 24 14:42:59 pizza ntpd[15329]: synchronized to 192.53.103.108, stratum 1
</snip>

        hauke

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