Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:
> I have a kernel with options NTP and have been using ntpdate=YES in 
> /etc/rc.conf. This made my clock jump around (you can't call that "drift")
> and overall degraded system stability in massive ways. Network was unreliable
> and at various places I got crashes involving calls to microtime().
> 
> Simply switching that ntpdate=YES back to NO made the system incredible 
> reliable.

This is obviously a bug in the ntp support. ntpdate just sets the time
once at boot time, so it is hard to see how this is happening, but
obviously it is. I don't suppose you could try to figure out what the
problem is?

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