Re: Is the Optiplex hwclock junk?

"Andrew A. Raines" <[email protected]> writes:

> John Peacock <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Andrew A. Raines wrote:
>>
>>> So is the only recourse in my situation to cron (er,
>>> runwhen) clockadd and manually force the clock into
>>> submission?
>>
>> I have a couple of cheap machines which have this same
>> problem.  I found that if I just reduced the maximum time
>> between adjustments to a week (604800 sec), they stay
>> perfectly synced:
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks.  I've set it to 604800.  I guess if I still see problems
> I could reduce it to a couple hours.

FYI, this is how short I had to go:

  2003-12-15 18:11:54.861605500 Sleeping 43200 seconds ...
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.740473500 before: 2003-12-16 06:11:54.740316000000000000
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.761673500 after:  2003-12-16 06:11:54.742783905975341796
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.775041500 before: 2003-12-16 06:11:54.774777000000000000
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.775044500 after:  2003-12-16 06:11:54.774777000418202820
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.775306500 ---------------------------------------------
  2003-12-16 06:11:54.778964500 Sleeping 43200 seconds ...

Yikes!  It still skews, but at least it keeps up at that delay.

Love that quality Dell engineering.

-Drew