Re: clock suddenly slipping behind
From: Nori Heikkinen (nori_at_sccs.swarthmore.edu)
Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:20:47 -0400 To: Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxdebianuser1093579989@astro.swin.edu.au>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:43:30AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated:
> on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:21:44PM +1000, Tim Connors insinuated:
> > Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net> said on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:34:17 -0700:
> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > > over the past few days, i've noticed that my system clock gets
> > > > about ten to fifteen minutes slow over the course of a day.
> > > > this is really weird! i've been using ntpdate to synchronize
> > > > it with a timeserver whenever i notice it, and i put it in a
> > > > once-a-day cron job, but i want my system to ALWAYS be on
> > > > time. i'm confused as to what's causing this, and how i can
> > > > fix it. any ideas?
> > > >
[...]
> > I haven't tried to reproduce this, but things to note were the
> > drift file *seemed* to have normal contents, the adjtime file was
> > slightly off (but should only affect the hardware timer anyway,
> > and was probably off because ntp was so confused - you can't
> > calibrate the hardware clock off a faulty software clock).
> >
> > One other very clued in guy on the scary devil monastery also
> > found this problem a day or two ago. I've been in communication
> > with him, and it seems these are all related. There is a hard to
> > trigger bug somewhere, but if you want to track it down, you'll
> > prbablky need to reinstall old version of ntp and/or adjtimex and
> > just keep working forwards and backwards until you trigger the bug
> > again.
>
> right now, i've got:
>
> ii ntp 4.2.0a-11
> ii ntp-simple 4.1.0-8
> ii ntpdate 4.2.0a-11
> ii adjtimex 1.18-1.1
>
> did you get a set of versions that works for you?
>
> and if this is a problem with these versions, should i file a bug?
> hmm, this looks quite relevant:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265839 (i'm also
> running kernel 2.4.26-1, like the submitter of this bug).
>
> i'll try downgrading adjtimex to 1.13-1, the next lowest version in
> the cache, and see if i still notice a drift at the end of the day
so, the drift seems to be entirely gone with the downgrading of
adjtimex. that bugreport i linked above seems to cover my problem --
i'm not quite sure (TICK?), but it seems to make sense ("... which
leads to heavy clock drifts (more than 30 minutes) within a quite
short time (less than a day) on all my machines. Drifts that not even
ntpd is able to compensate.").
if this bug is already filed, i guess my conclusion has to just be to
keep adjtimex from upgrading until the bug is fixed.
thanks for your help, all.
</nori>
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