Bug 190919 - tickadj unable to set lower than 9000, ntp unable to correct time
Summary: tickadj unable to set lower than 9000, ntp unable to correct time
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 165826
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-06 15:44 UTC by John
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-09 09:40:35 UTC
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Description John 2006-05-06 15:44:30 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest RH Ent Kernel


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run on Opteron dualcore
2. Set up and run ntpd
3. Watch time drift(quickly)
  
Time advances very quickly, would need to set a lower tick rate.

Additional info:
tickadj does not work as described in manual.
tickadj will not accept a lower value than 9000.

Comment 1 John 2006-05-06 22:05:53 UTC
This appears to have an underlying problem because of the limits in adjtimex.

On the system it's running on the hardware clock is so fast that the adjustment
level is exceeded causing no way to keep time correct.

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2006-05-09 08:51:36 UTC
This is probably a hw/kernel issue. Can you take a look at bug 165826? There are
a few things you can try.

Comment 3 John 2006-05-09 09:07:58 UTC
Thanks Miroslav

Adding 'clock=pmtimer' to the kernel options line in grub.conf has for the most
part fixed this issue.

I still have a couple of probs with ntpd dieing but now it can at least keep
time accurate while it's running.


Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2006-05-09 09:40:35 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165826 ***


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