Re: [SLUG] Why is time slipping?

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 14:57:56 EST


> My wife's machine is inexplicably slow anyway. It's a Sempron 3GHz
> processor with 500M of memory and relatively new disks. But it runs like
> a Pentium 1. That's another issue I don't have the expertise to repair
> right now. So I know the machine is slow anyway. I'm just thinking ntpd
> should be able to compensate for a machine that's working against it.

Is it possible that the clocking on that machine is so weird that it's
skewing the time more than ntpd's maximum sane drift rate?

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