Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:30:03
Message-Id: 4D25450D.7090900@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file. by Steffen Loos
1 Steffen Loos wrote:
2 >
3 > If i remember right your new rig is AMD-Phenom based?! - then just
4 > have a look at
5 > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.4.2.7.
6 > If your clocksource is the tsc it's possible youre affected by this
7 > problem.
8 > At http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/general/support/adjtimex.html#issues is
9 > a "nice" illustration of the affect.
10 >
11 >
12 > Steffen
13 >
14 >
15
16 You remember correctly. I read some of that, actually ran across it
17 while googling myself, and I don't know for sure if it was the problem
18 or not. I unmerged ntp and emerged openntp. That's in a separate
19 post. Going to see if that works.
20
21 Dale
22
23 :-) :-)