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From: Rob Lesslie <roblesslie@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] cockspeed: no effect on amd64?
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:55:30
Message-Id: abc7ae5b0512090153u63bba1ffg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] cockspeed: no effect on amd64? by Yassen Damyanov
1 On 09/12/05, Yassen Damyanov <yd@×××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I'm looking for anyone using clockspeed successfully on
5 > amd64.
6 >
7 > I have a success story 2 years ago using it on a Redhat 6
8 > system to correct a terribly drifting clock. It did a
9 > *perfect* job for me.
10 >
11 > Now I am trying to use it to correct a clock that speeds up
12 > about 1 sec. per hour, this on a Gentoo Linux / amd64 box,
13 > and it does not work for me.
14 >
15 > Here's a log of what I did, following the INSTALL.gz:
16 >
17 > # DIARY of of the clockspeed tunning process:
18 >
19 > # YD, 2005-11-28:
20 > # (#4) Tunned the clock via
21 > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` | clockadd
22 > # (#5) Then started clockspeed and gave it a time measurement:
23 > # clockspeed &
24 > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust &
25 > #
26 > # YD, 2005-11-30:
27 > # (#6) second time measurement given via
28 > # sntpclock `sntphost.sh` > /var/lib/clockspeed/adjust &
29 > #
30 > # YD, 2005-12-06: bad, clock drifting is now
31 > # before: 2005-12-06 07:51:29.438417000000000000
32 > # after: 2005-12-06 07:51:15.661924499920696019
33 >
34 > (sntphost.sh simply returns one IP address of a near-by sntp
35 > server.)
36 >
37 > I am absolutely ignorant about any details of how clockspeed
38 > works, so forgive me any stupidity.
39 >
40 > I am also aware that this sounds more like a question for the
41 > clockspeed list itself, but I've already done that and got no
42 > reply.
43 >
44 > What I can add to the above report: trying to access the atto file
45 > fails, as it simply does not exist. The /var/lib/clockspeed/ looks
46 > this way:
47 >
48 > dedi root # ls -la /var/lib/clockspeed/
49 > total 6
50 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 38 Nov 28 09:23 .
51 > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Nov 30 10:28 ..
52 > prw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 30 12:01 adjust
53 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Feb 17 2005 leapsecs.dat
54 >
55 > Do I miss something? What might be wrong? I would appreciate
56 > any help -- thank you!
57 >
58 > Yassen Damyanov
59 > Troyer Information Systems
60 > --
61 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
62 >
63 >
64
65 Bit of a typo in the subject :)
66
67 --
68 Rob Lesslie
69
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