Major Clock Drift

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:33:48PM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> I've got this strange problem on my Linux machine at work... We run ntp 
> from a local server. Lately, my machine has developed some major clock 
> drift. At bootup, it uses ntp to set the clock, but after only 24 
> hours, the clock time can be as much as 3.5 or 4 seconds off from the 
> server. This is a pain for my software development, since all my code 
> is stored on the server and accessed via nfs, so make complains about 
> clock skew.
> 
> Anyway, what could be the cause of my drifting clock? Could I have 
> something setup wrong, or is my computer's hardware somehow going?

Run your ntpdate at boot time, then run ntpd forever after.

-dsr-