Inconsistent System Clock

[weipers]

Hi,

I am working on a Sun Solaris environment, and the system clock seems to be behaving in an erratic manner. Every so often it loses time.

I've cut the information below directly from a session on the node. You will see that time moves forwards as expected, then drops back before resuming it's normal onward course.

I have an application that it failing because it can detect this scenario.

Does anyone out there have any ideas? Previous threads imply that possibly the battery could be defunct? Can I test this remotely( I am in a different country to the node)?

Tuesday January 13 17:33:31 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:33 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:34 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:36 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:34 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:36 CET 2004
$ date
Tuesday January 13 17:33:38 CET 2004

Cheers,

 

[bi]

It could be a problem with the battery.

Is xntpd running on this system? If so, it could be that the settings on xntpd are too strict. Correcting a two second difference seems harsh for most applications.

 

[daFranze]

as bi mentions grep for xntp entries in the messages; if there are some disable xntpd to doublecheck if the systemclock hops forward and back; if it hops the board's battery is defect or low...

Regards
-- Franz
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