Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

[Alexander Puchmayr <alexander.puchmayr@linznet.at>]

Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 16:23:11 schrieb Jil Larner:
> Hi,
> 
> Alexander Puchmayr a écrit :
> > I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too
> > slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4
> > minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate.
> 
> Is it physical or virtual environment? If virtual, clock issues are
> common and, in case of VMWare, their tools handle them because ntp
> cannot. Still, never use a virtual machine as a time reference.
> 
> If it's physical, my two cents are clueless. Maybe you wish to reduce
> the frequency of the clock; I know it's a kernel parameter, but don't
> remember which one.
> 

Its a physical environment, although the server has some KVMs running. 

Greetings,
	Alex