Re: AMD Quad Core clock problem?

From: Chris Snook
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 15:16:32 EST


Marc Perkel wrote:
My best guess at this time is that the drift of this
computer using the quad core is so great that the ntpd
can't get in sync. Is there any way to make ntpd more
agressive by setting something in ntp.conf?

ntp can correct for 500 ppm drift, which equates to 1.8 seconds per hour. Beyond that you need to run ntpdate or ntpd -gq from cron to correct it.

-- Chris
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