Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

["A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@xxxxxx>]

Neil Dawkins wrote:

> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > The Friday 2007-12-07 at 00:05 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >
> > > Carlos,
> > >
> > > I haven't been paying too much attention to what you have written re 
> > > the problem, what result do you get when you try setting the time 
> > > manually, as root, from the command line? You know, the old
> > >
> > > ntpdate -u <IP-address-of-time-server>
> >
> >
> > It works, of course. That's what I'm doing every time NTP quits.
> >
> > The problem is that NTP can't keep the system clock disciplined, it 
> > strays off as soon as NTP looses the network peers, and not a second 
> > or two, but several minutes.
> >
> > It seems a kernel problem, not an NTP problem.
>
> Carlos,
>
> I had a similar problem on one of my 10.3 servers.
>
> I had to reset 
> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource (in 
> this case to jiffies).
>
> To list available sources:
>
> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>
> Before 10.3 I have not experienced this issue.
>
> Regards
> Neil
>
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I corrected the systemclock in the BIOS and the troubles were over
André den Oudsten
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