Clock drift and cycle

From: Jeff Graham (sunmanagers@demit.net)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 01:39:20 EDT


I am using an ultra 5 for a backup server and every once in a while the
clock seems to become locked into a loop that is many seconds off (both
with and without xntpd running.) I logged into the box and disabled
about every process I could disable without killing the box totally.

It seems that once it starts cycling it stays locked into the same 3
second loop forever.

Has anyone seen behavior like this before? If it weren't for the
behavior lasting past stoping xntpd I would suspect that.

A stop of xntpd, manual ntpdate on the server it normally uses and
restart of xntpd will fix it for a while, but then it starts up some
random period later (like a day or week or couple hours)

Any pointers would be appreciated.

TIA

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