SUMMARY: ntp on SunBlade 100, Solaris 8

From: Josh Lothian <lothian_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 16:42:54 EST
Thanks to everyone who replied.  I got a few recommendations:

Dan Astoorian, et al.:
It's a known problem; the kernel uses an inaccurate value for the clock
frequency.  Put
    set sys_tick_freq = 5549020

into /etc/system on the Sun Blade 100's and reboot.
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This worked great!

Lars Hecking suggested installing the latest patch cluster.  as well as
using Sun's ntpd.  We prefer not to do that, since xntpd has some well
known security flaws.  I tried the latest patch cluster with our version
of ntpd, but it didn't fix the problem.

What I surmise from this is that the clocks on the Sunblade 100's are
not at all accurate on their own.

Thanks again to everyone who replied

-josh

Original post:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using ntp 4.1.0 on multiple SunBlade 100s.  The SunBlades all
> reset their time nearly a second every 10 to 20 minutes, whereas our other
> Solaris 8 machines don't.  Are there any known issues with either the
> internal clock on the SunBlade, or with ntp on the same hardware?  A quick
> check of sunsolve only turned up references to problems with Sun's xntpd.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -Josh
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 Josh Lothian   lothian@cs.utk.edu

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