Hi, All.

I've been experiencing a strange behaviour of NetBSD/pmax kernel for
long time.  My Personal DECstation's RTC slops severely.  It is
continuously getting behind from wall clock.  Symptom is worse when
I run kernel compile job, almost useless without timed adjustments.

May 25 17:00:10 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:05:22 1999 
May 25 17:06:31 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:05:37 1999 
May 25 17:10:31 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:10:06 1999 
May 25 17:14:32 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:14:06 1999 
May 25 17:22:33 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:21:55 1999 
May 25 17:30:34 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:30:00 1999 
May 25 17:38:35 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:38:03 1999 
May 25 17:46:36 maxine timed[171]: date changed by pelican from Tue May 25 17:45:57 1999 
...

I observe very similar symptom on NetBSD/alpha (DEC3000/300).

May 22 16:04:32 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.10.10, stratum=3
May 22 16:04:34 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) 1.803641 s
May 22 16:04:34 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 16:10:20 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
May 22 16:10:57 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.10.10, stratum=3
May 22 16:39:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) -1.138570 s
May 22 16:39:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
May 22 16:39:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 16:45:32 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
May 22 16:45:31 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) -0.673345 s
May 22 16:45:31 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 16:51:29 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.10.10, stratum=3
May 22 17:27:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) -0.645797 s
May 22 17:27:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
May 22 17:27:44 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 17:33:32 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
May 22 17:33:31 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) -0.548190 s
May 22 17:33:31 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 17:39:29 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.10.10, stratum=3
May 22 17:39:28 pelican xntpd[24884]: time reset (step) -0.527461 s
May 22 17:39:28 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronisation lost
May 22 17:44:12 pelican xntpd[24884]: synchronized to 10.1.80.13, stratum=4
...

Does anyone out there have sloppy RTC symptoms with NetBSD/pmax?

Tohru Nishimura