Clock drift and cycle

2007-12-25 1:05:00

I am using an ultra 5 for a backup server and every once in a while the
clock seems to become locked into a loop that is many seconds off (both
with and without xntpd running.) I logged into the box and disabled
about every process I could disable without killing the box totally.

It seems that once it starts cycling it stays locked into the same 3
second loop forever.

Has anyone seen behavior like this before? If it weren't for the
behavior lasting past stoping xntpd I would suspect that.

A stop of xntpd, manual ntpdate on the server it normally uses and
restart of xntpd will fix it for a while, but then it starts up some
random period later (like a day or week or couple hours)

Any pointers would be appreciated.

TIA

--
Jeff Graham <codeprof at demit.net>
GnuPG 1.0.6 Public key #9373D50B (0x9373D50B) certserver.pgp.com
Key fingerprint = 13FA F174 5F18 F3A8 1EFE 6930 B5FE 45BA 9373 D50B

Comments

Got something to say?

You must be logged in to post a comment.