Levi Bard wrote:
>> My wife's machine is inexplicably slow anyway. It's a Sempron 3GHz
>> processor with 500M of memory and relatively new disks. But it runs like
>> a Pentium 1. That's another issue I don't have the expertise to repair
>> right now. So I know the machine is slow anyway. I'm just thinking ntpd
>> should be able to compensate for a machine that's working against it.
>
> Is it possible that the clocking on that machine is so weird that it's
> skewing the time more than ntpd's maximum sane drift rate?
>
Entirely possible, but again, my impression is that the -g parameter
given to the ntpd daemon allows it to directly set the time without
slewing or slipping. Am I wrong?
Paul
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