From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:53:49 -0700 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] timesync doubletime In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99e78d8a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > the rtc clock in one of my machines runs a bit slow -- maybe 2 minutes a month. > i ran timesync -h /srv/sources and now the system clock runs ~28 sec/min too fast. > killing timesync had no effect. Killing timesync probably did have an effect. As Kris pointed out, if you were a few minutes behind sources then maybe timesync was running time fast to catch up. Killing it doesn't help -- now time will run fast forever, when if you'd left it, it probably would have slowed to regular speed once it caught up. The speed in use at time of kill is what the kernel will use until told otherwise. Also, you might get more precise results by using NTP instead of relying on a long-distance TCP connection to sources. Russ