Re: 2.6.10 and time drift

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Mon Dec 27 2004 - 08:21:50 EST


On Monday 27 December 2004 06:28, Alexander Prokoshev wrote:
>Hello,
>
> after installation of 2.6.10 kernel I've noticed time drift, which
>(according to ntpdc's dmpeer command) is about 10-15 seconds per
> hour. Downgrade to 2.6.9 solves this problem. I can send any
> additional information which may be helpful.

Until this gets fixed, you might try resetting the kernels tick period
with the 'tickadj' command. I'm doing fairly well with a setting of
9926 here, default is 10,000. I stuck it in my rc.local file.

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