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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!news.silicon.net!chris From: chris@Silicon.NET (Christopher Ellwood) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adjusting for timer inaccuracies in the kernel Date: 3 Jul 1996 02:59:18 GMT Organization: Silicon Internet - (818)-782-INET Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4rcnm6$cht@emerald.silicon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.silicon.net The clock on one of my FreeBSD machines consistently gains about 147 seconds a week. This works out to be a gain of a little less than 1 second per hour. Naturally, I could run xntpd on this machine and have it constantly adjust the time, but I would need dedicated access to an accurate ntp server. Instead, I would like to make an adjustment in the kernel to compensate for the significant inaccuracies in my system's clock. Is there a simple kernel constant that I can adjust to do this (and if so, how much should I adjust it by), or does making such a correction in the kernel require more than a simple adjustment? Thanks for any help or pointers that you can give me. - Christopher Ellwood <chris@silicon.net>