Re: dntpd

[Peter Avalos <pavalos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 02:38:41PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :This is crazy:
> :
> :# grep ntpd /var/log/all.log
> :Jun 24 02:06:39 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 338.189ppm
> :Jun 24 02:22:27 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 3.743491
> :Jun 24 02:53:35 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 2.301601
> :Jun 24 06:45:12 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 554.987ppm
> :Jun 24 11:09:01 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 339.188ppm
> :Jun 24 14:13:07 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing COARSE offset adjustment: -3587.777365, 24-Jun-2007 14:13:07.027
> :Jun 24 14:37:39 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1447.123ppm
> :Jun 24 15:48:12 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing COARSE offset adjustment: 3598.513848, 24-Jun-2007 15:48:12.709
> :Jun 24 15:53:26 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1358.734ppm
> :Jun 24 15:58:43 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1290.414ppm
> :Jun 24 16:04:00 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1240.480ppm
> :Jun 24 16:09:15 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1200.177ppm
> :Jun 24 16:14:31 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1166.282ppm
> :
> :There's no servers directive, so here's what dntpd.conf looks like:
> 
>     Hmm.  Wait a second... 3587?  3598?  That's 3600 seconds == one hour.
>     It sounds like one or more servers is off by an hour.  But the ppm
>     adjustments are also pretty crazy.  It's over 1 millisecond per second!
> 

Like I said...crazy.

>     Did you reboot inbetween any of those reports?  It could be you told
>     the kernel the real time clock was operating in local time instead of
>     GMT and the kernel isn't writing it out properly.  Do you have
>     a /etc/wall_cmos_clock file?  If you do, that could be the problem.
> 

No reboots and I don't have a wall_cmos_clock.  Basically...nothing changed
afiact.

Here's a grep of the past week.  That disk was replaced on the 22nd.

Jun 24 02:06:39 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 338.189ppm
Jun 24 02:22:27 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 3.743491
Jun 24 02:53:35 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 2.301601
Jun 24 06:45:12 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 554.987ppm
Jun 24 11:09:01 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 339.188ppm
Jun 24 14:13:07 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing COARSE offset adjustment: -3587.777365, 24-Jun-2007 14:13:07.027
Jun 24 14:37:39 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1447.123ppm
Jun 24 15:48:12 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing COARSE offset adjustment: 3598.513848, 24-Jun-2007 15:48:12.709
Jun 24 15:53:26 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1358.734ppm
Jun 24 15:58:43 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1290.414ppm
Jun 24 16:04:00 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1240.480ppm
Jun 24 16:09:15 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1200.177ppm
Jun 24 16:14:31 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1166.282ppm
Jun 24 16:46:08 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 1082.083ppm

Jun 23 00:02:40 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 26792.744ppm
Jun 23 04:31:50 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing COARSE offset adjustment: -346.983869, 23-Jun-2007 04:31:50.889
Jun 23 04:31:50 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 141.977ppm
Jun 23 04:52:45 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -58.732077
Jun 23 09:03:38 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.081487
Jun 23 09:24:38 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.006328
Jun 23 09:45:41 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.010649
Jun 23 11:41:10 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.006669
Jun 23 13:31:10 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.003460
Jun 23 13:46:52 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.004132
Jun 23 15:00:28 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.008398
Jun 23 16:50:32 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.011628
Jun 23 17:47:58 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.003545
Jun 23 18:08:53 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.005953
Jun 23 19:22:22 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.009702
Jun 23 21:12:38 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.010340

Jun 22 16:26:31 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 3731.489ppm
Jun 22 16:31:49 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 3798.854ppm
Jun 22 16:37:08 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 3862.556ppm
Jun 22 16:42:29 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 3936.830ppm
Jun 22 16:47:46 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 4010.071ppm
Jun 22 16:53:06 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 4071.539ppm
Jun 22 17:04:55 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 17:04:55 ylem dntpd[616]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 17:05:12 ylem dntpd[616]: issuing offset adjustment: 29.684924
Jun 22 17:10:45 ylem dntpd[616]: issuing frequency adjustment: 148.342ppm
Jun 22 19:45:46 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 19:45:46 ylem dntpd[614]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 19:46:03 ylem dntpd[614]: issuing offset adjustment: 1.346819
Jun 22 19:53:13 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 19:53:13 ylem dntpd[612]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 19:53:30 ylem dntpd[612]: issuing offset adjustment: 1.449639
Jun 22 19:59:04 ylem dntpd[612]: issuing frequency adjustment: 145.648ppm
Jun 22 20:16:35 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 20:16:36 ylem dntpd[613]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 20:16:52 ylem dntpd[613]: issuing offset adjustment: 1.421246
Jun 22 20:24:44 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 20:24:44 ylem dntpd[618]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 20:25:01 ylem dntpd[618]: issuing offset adjustment: 1.743558
Jun 22 20:30:35 ylem dntpd[618]: issuing frequency adjustment: 312.421ppm
Jun 22 20:41:05 ylem dntpd[618]: issuing frequency adjustment: 277.720ppm
Jun 22 21:44:44 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 21:44:44 ylem dntpd[615]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 21:45:01 ylem dntpd[615]: issuing offset adjustment: 2.932254
Jun 22 21:53:59 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 21:53:59 ylem dntpd[616]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 21:54:15 ylem dntpd[616]: issuing offset adjustment: 4.018087
Jun 22 22:04:30 ylem kernel: Starting dntpd.
Jun 22 22:04:31 ylem dntpd[629]: dntpd version 1.0 started
Jun 22 22:04:47 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing offset adjustment: 4.841953
Jun 22 22:10:19 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 474.179ppm
Jun 22 22:57:41 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 25446.670ppm
Jun 22 23:08:29 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 30413.801ppm
Jun 22 23:13:53 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 31116.993ppm
Jun 22 23:19:18 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 31014.725ppm
Jun 22 23:24:45 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 30421.985ppm
Jun 22 23:30:13 ylem dntpd[629]: issuing frequency adjustment: 29545.499ppm

Jun 21 00:48:49 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 465.512ppm
Jun 21 02:50:29 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 629.095ppm
Jun 21 05:07:37 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 5.351704
Jun 21 05:07:37 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 444.871ppm
Jun 21 05:44:10 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -1.266207
Jun 21 06:21:11 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.644232
Jun 21 07:51:09 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 387.807ppm
Jun 21 08:12:14 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 297.753ppm
Jun 21 08:28:01 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -1.392859
Jun 21 11:48:13 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 232.549ppm
Jun 21 11:48:51 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 264.763ppm
Jun 21 13:24:00 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 231.455ppm
Jun 21 16:18:03 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 158.302ppm
Jun 21 18:40:52 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -1.510266
Jun 21 19:06:29 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.355233

Jun 20 02:42:43 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.002615
Jun 20 03:03:51 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.001543
Jun 20 03:51:22 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.003253
Jun 20 05:52:59 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.004461
Jun 20 07:54:33 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.001060
Jun 20 08:15:32 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.005544
Jun 20 09:08:23 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.007024
Jun 20 11:09:51 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.005646
Jun 20 13:11:34 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.006287
Jun 20 13:32:27 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.002789
Jun 20 14:25:22 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.002805
Jun 20 19:52:41 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 289.730ppm
Jun 20 21:38:19 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 333.651ppm
Jun 20 23:08:22 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 292.546ppm
Jun 20 23:13:39 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 329.224ppm
Jun 20 23:40:03 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 305.610ppm

Jun 18 02:01:14 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -2.026739
Jun 18 02:28:23 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.591158
Jun 18 03:05:25 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.003780
Jun 18 05:12:17 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.003959
Jun 18 17:17:45 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.013625

Jun 17 02:08:53 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.346366
Jun 17 02:36:34 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.153339
Jun 17 09:18:10 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.034912
Jun 17 09:40:26 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.007264
Jun 17 15:09:15 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 351.922ppm
Jun 17 16:29:21 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 406.836ppm
Jun 17 18:51:17 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 3.181001
Jun 17 19:18:45 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.341387
Jun 17 21:15:01 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 285.856ppm
Jun 17 23:37:42 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 163.266ppm

Jun 16 02:13:41 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.577109
Jun 16 03:13:23 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.114155
Jun 16 04:53:48 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.005487
Jun 16 06:50:05 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.005330
Jun 16 07:12:46 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.007755
Jun 16 08:00:22 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: 0.007686
Jun 16 09:40:45 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing offset adjustment: -0.006718
Jun 16 16:36:24 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 658.908ppm
Jun 16 18:43:20 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 548.854ppm
Jun 16 19:15:08 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 524.173ppm
Jun 16 21:22:10 ylem dntpd[73041]: issuing frequency adjustment: 164.604ppm

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