[wplug] Clock running very slow
Rick Smith
rick at rbsmith.com
Wed Apr 30 11:03:53 EDT 2003
Ah, yes, I see. Messing with hwclock doesn't help you.
You can tweak your kernel params.
A guess you would want to tweak the 'freq'?
I've not played with it.
man adjtimex
http://www.gnu.org/directory/sysadmin/adjtimex.html
general info: http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/Clock/Clock-2.html
-- Rick
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:33:05AM -0400, Procario, Michael wrote:
> I read man hwclock and it said that the hardware clock keeps time while the
> system is off. The system keeps time while it is on. It even said that the
> hardware clock is less accurate than the system and you can use the system
> time to adjust the hardware clock. That seems to be the opposite of my
> problem, since I have been running this box for 24/7 for two weeks now.
>
> BTW the way my estimate was off on how slow it was running. I reset the
> clock at 8:00 PM last night. I had a cron job set up to run fetchmail at
> 4:00 AM. It actually ran at 8:12 AM, four hours lost in a 12 hour span.
>
> Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Smith [mailto:rick at rbsmith.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:45 AM
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: Re: [wplug] Clock running very slow
> >
> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > man hwclock
> > and look for the section about 'adjust'.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:19:33PM -0400, Mike Procario wrote:
> > >
> > > I just converted an old K6-300 machine to linux (RH 7.3).
> > The clock
> > > seems to be running very slow. It looks like it is losing about 5
> > > minutes an hour. That kind of reducing the usefulness as a
> > server for
> > > my family network. I am guessing that this is more likely
> > a hardware
> > > problem than a linux problem, but I bet lots of people on
> > the list are
> > > running very old boxes. Any ideas of what to look at to fix the
> > > clock.
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