Hi,

I've got a dual-opteron machine here and have some problems with ntpd. 
Everything is fine when the machine does nothing, but when there is some 
load (cvs, rsync), it starts to log 'frequency errors'. Is it serious? 
NetBSD 2.0_STABLE.

Aug  1 16:49:04 mme ntpd[106]: ntpd 4.2.0-r Tue Jul 19 20:53:04 CEST 
2005 (1)
Aug  1 16:49:04 mme ntpd[106]: precision = 1.000 usec
Aug  1 16:49:04 mme ntpd[106]: kernel time sync status 0040
Aug  1 16:49:04 mme ntpd[106]: frequency initialized 76.378 PPM from 
/var/db/ntp.drift
Aug  1 16:53:29 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.139599 s
Aug  1 16:53:29 mme ntpd[106]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
Aug  1 17:05:16 mme ntpd[106]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
Aug  2 04:19:11 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.174187 s
Aug  2 17:50:41 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.213973 s
Aug  3 05:31:21 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.235782 s
Aug  3 11:29:30 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.176931 s
Aug  3 20:37:43 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.168864 s
Aug  4 03:12:58 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.136528 s
Aug  4 19:06:46 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.132935 s
Aug  5 07:40:20 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.173029 s
Aug  5 15:08:20 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.260419 s
Aug  5 18:17:40 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.174387 s
Aug  6 07:08:00 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.245858 s
Aug  6 12:00:07 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.143171 s
Aug  7 07:45:08 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.184138 s
Aug  7 21:45:39 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.224477 s
Aug  8 09:42:03 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.222329 s
Aug  8 18:16:56 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.160967 s
Aug  8 21:10:09 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.228201 s
Aug  9 05:35:30 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.156264 s
Aug  9 11:00:27 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.134526 s
Aug  9 19:50:08 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.134443 s
Aug 10 11:31:49 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.219185 s
Aug 10 16:38:35 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.178422 s
Aug 11 06:19:28 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.157376 s
Aug 11 12:53:36 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.185897 s
Aug 11 23:13:22 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.185851 s
Aug 12 08:24:19 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.139065 s
Aug 12 17:55:03 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.136368 s
Aug 13 16:30:34 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.286420 s
Aug 13 23:22:04 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.147292 s
Aug 14 13:08:55 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.191799 s
Aug 14 17:33:07 mme ntpd[106]: time reset -0.362025 s
Aug 14 19:35:20 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.652019 s
Aug 14 19:40:48 mme ntpd[106]: frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 
500 PPM
Aug 14 19:57:50 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.429703 s
Aug 14 19:57:50 mme ntpd[106]: frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 
500 PPM
Aug 14 20:03:12 mme ntpd[106]: frequency error -512 PPM exceeds 
tolerance 500 PPM
Aug 14 20:20:19 mme ntpd[106]: time reset +0.649708 s
Aug 14 20:28:55 mme ntpd[106]: frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 
500 PPM

r.