[ale] ntpq

[Jim Kinney]

15 seconds per minute is a huge drift rate.

Yes, it is most likely a sign of failing hardware.

See the man page for hwclock for loads of good info on how the system keeps
time.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:54 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:

> All, I have a machine that cannot seem to keep correct time. It drifts off
> by about 15  seconds every minute.  It has exactly the same ntp
> configuration as many other machines in our department which appear to keep
> correct time. Below is the output from "     ntpq --numeric --peers". Note
> the very large "jitter" number. Is the clock on this machine simply broken?
> Its a real, live chunk of hardware, not a VM.
>
> remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
>
> ==============================================================================
> +george.math.wis 208.97.140.69    3 u  499  512  377    0.131   -2.078
> 0.057
> *gracie.math.wis 204.235.61.9     3 u  341 1024  377    0.138    1.759
> 1.933
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "root" <root at math.wisc.edu>
> To: <jheim at math.wisc.edu>; <ntpq at math.wisc.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:06 PM
>
>
> >     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
> > jitter
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > +george.math.wis 208.97.140.69    3 u  499  512  377    0.131   -2.078
> > 0.057
> > *gracie.math.wis 204.235.61.9     3 u  341 1024  377    0.138    1.759
> > 1.933
> >
> >
>
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