Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:54:37PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > BTW: do these "time crashes" happen because of OF limitations? Because > I don't remember having had the time being ruined like that when I had > crashes on BIOS based computers ... > > I doubt it's the battery also, because I ha

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Mar 11 2007, at 21:54 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Rick > > On Sun, Mar 11 2007, at 14:48 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > >"Going wrong" happens at > > >times after a system crash, e.g., when the times are set back t

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Rick On Sun, Mar 11 2007, at 14:48 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > >"Going wrong" happens at > >times after a system crash, e.g., when the times are set back to 1970 > >(and 2004, IIRC). These times I start all over with recalibrating th

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: "Going wrong" happens at times after a system crash, e.g., when the times are set back to 1970 (and 2004, IIRC). These times I start all over with recalibrating the hardware clock ... I swear I hate these situations ... Hi Wolfgang, This

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Mar 11 2007, at 16:31 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi Bram, Hi All > > > > Bram, I'm not an expert for time setting procedures on Linux. The > > following is just a glimpse on what I might have learned on Linux time > >

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-11 Thread Bram Senders
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Bram, Hi All > > Bram, I'm not an expert for time setting procedures on Linux. The > following is just a glimpse on what I might have learned on Linux time > setting routines over the last few years ... > *** 4: I'd suggest

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-11 Thread Bram Senders
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:24:42PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:04 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts > > so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting messages

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 16:04 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts > so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting messages > like "time reset +2.404131 s" from ntpd approximately every 15 to 20 > minutes.

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Mar 09 2007, at 18:23 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Bram, Hi All > > [ ... ] Sorry, I forgot that: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 833.333000MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 16.57 ti

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Bram, Hi All Bram, I'm not an expert for time setting procedures on Linux. The following is just a glimpse on what I might have learned on Linux time setting routines over the last few years ... On Fri, Mar 09 2007, at 16:00 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:32:03PM +0100

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Bram Senders wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 06:08:57PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Bram Senders wrote: I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Bram Senders
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:32:03PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08 2007, at 16:04 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > > I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. > > Before we go into further details: > > You have until-linux installed, and you have /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Bram Senders
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 06:08:57PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Bram Senders wrote: > >I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock > >drifts so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting > >messages like "time reset +2.404131 s" from

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Bram, hi All On Thu, Mar 08 2007, at 16:04 +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. Before we go into further details: You have until-linux installed, and you have /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh on your system, do you? Best Regards Wolfgang

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Bram Senders wrote: Hi there, I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting messages like "time reset +2.404131 s" from ntpd approximately every 15 to 20 minutes. Also, the

Re: Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-08 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:04:08PM +0100, Bram Senders wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts > so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting messages > like "time reset +2.404131 s" from ntpd approximately every 15 to 20 > m

Mac mini: serious clock drift

2007-03-08 Thread Bram Senders
Hi there, I am having issues with clock drift on my G4 Mac mini. The clock drifts so much that even ntpd can't keep up with it. I keep getting messages like "time reset +2.404131 s" from ntpd approximately every 15 to 20 minutes. Also, the drift ntpd records in /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift keeps grow