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Re: Insane clock skew on amd64 host running etch/i386
Posted by dkg (216.254.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Feb 2007 at 15:19
Thank you so much! i added clock=pit to the # kopt= line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, ran update-grub, and rebooted. It looks like things are fixed. (i'll read up more on that option so i understand it better, too): 
0 orangutan:~# hwclock --hctosys; for foo in 1 2 3 4; do
>    date +%c
>    hwclock --show
>    ntpdate -q -u sundial.columbia.edu
>    sleep 10
> done
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:11:37 AM EST
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:11:38 AM EST  -0.997767 seconds
server 128.59.59.177, stratum 2, offset -0.898535, delay 0.04990
 2 Feb 10:11:38 ntpdate[2520]: step time server 128.59.59.177 offset -0.898535 sec
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:11:48 AM EST
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:11:49 AM EST  -0.768946 seconds
server 128.59.59.177, stratum 2, offset -0.898470, delay 0.04987
 2 Feb 10:11:49 ntpdate[2524]: step time server 128.59.59.177 offset -0.898470 sec
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:11:59 AM EST
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:12:00 AM EST  -0.776830 seconds
server 128.59.59.177, stratum 2, offset -0.898535, delay 0.04991
 2 Feb 10:12:00 ntpdate[2565]: step time server 128.59.59.177 offset -0.898535 sec
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:12:10 AM EST
Fri 02 Feb 2007 10:12:11 AM EST  -0.776747 seconds
server 128.59.59.177, stratum 2, offset -0.898532, delay 0.04984
 2 Feb 10:12:11 ntpdate[2569]: step time server 128.59.59.177 offset -0.898532 sec
0 orangutan:~#
I had suspected a virtualized environment earlier (the hosting company is claiming that this is a real machine, but i've never seen it). Your comment makes me even more suspicious. Do you know how to detect if you are running within an MS Virtual Server? I've tried scoopy doo, which is billed as being able to detect a VMWare instance, but it doesn't detect anything.

Thanks again!

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