[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

[Mark]

On 14/07/2011 11:54 a.m., Gary wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark wrote:
>
>> The 500ppm ntp range limit is easy to exceed with virtual hardware, since it
>> isn't "real time" orientated.
>
> The original poster, Chris Chan, is running it on bare metal hardware.
> Regardless, I've never had that issue with running NTP in guests
> hosted in VirtualBox or VMware. If that happened to me in a VM,
> however, I'd be filing a bug with the VM software vendor.
>

If it is hardware, then check the bios setup for a Spread Spectrum clock 
setting and try disabling it if it is on.

Mark.


> -Gary
>
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