[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, July 14, 2011 04:38 PM, Mark wrote:
> 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.
>


/me takes note. Thanks!