From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Message-Id: <199512020822.AAA01205@ref.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Hyperactive time
To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:22:12 -0800 (PST)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au
In-Reply-To: <199512020755.SAA27501@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Dec 2, 95 07:00:07 pm
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I just realised I'm seeing this as well,
I noticed that xearth is showing daylight here, bat my eyes say differnt
if I look outside..
A kernel compiled on Nov 26 is ok,
but one compiled Wednesday seems to have fun with time..
"aha! I'll call it tardis!.. tardis.tfs.com.. has a certain ring to it..
and I can go home earlier too!"

julian..


> 
> G'day,
> 
> I've got a _real_ special 2.0.5R system here. The more I compile, the faster
> the time goes. Good grief! Is the system trying to tell me something? No,
> I'm _not_ joking. I heard of real time, but this is crazy.
> 
> Any idea what I could've done to the thing to cause this?
> 
> I tried deleting the /etc/wall_clock_thingy, then I commented adjkerntz out
> of /etc/rc, but nothing seems affect it.
> 
> When I boot the system, it starts at the bios time. It's OK for a while
> then whooooosh......
> 
> Could it be seeing the xntpd packets that OSF/1 puts out?
not unless you're running xntpd on the BSD box..
you could have a cron job htat does 
ntpdate osfbox every 5 minutes :)

does the dmesg show your CPU (if it's a pentium)
as being the right speed?

> 
> 
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