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Upgrade to Squeeze on KVM VM causes clock problems

So I have this VM (I don't have access to the host system) running Debian Lenny, with the following kernel: 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 #1 SMP This morning I upgraded the VM to Squeeze (finally), and as the ...
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CentOS 5 clock running twice as fast

The system clock on a CentOS 5 install is running twice as fast as it should. The hardware clock is fine, and when I run a ntp sync, it resets to the correct time. But within 2 minutes, it is already ...
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Clock is 10% faster than normal

I'm having some strange problem with the clock on my server – it's about 10% faster than normal. The problem started 2 days ago and I've not done anything special with the server. I tried to turn of ...
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Anybody tried to use graphic card as a precision clock on a Windows server?

I am thinking (constantly) how to make my server be synchronised better than it is. I run some cheap app which syncs me with some stratum 2 server on the colo and drift is about 1-2 ms per 10 sec ...
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What is the largest hardware clock update the Linux kernel “11-minute mode” can make?

When certain time-related programs (like ntpd) are running on a Linux system, the kernel will switch into so-called "eleven minute mode" (see the hwclock man page) whereby it will automatically update ...
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WS2008 NTP - Using time.windows.com,0x9 - Time always skewed forwards

I have a domain controller configured to use time.windows.com (with 0x09 flags set). I've noticed that frequently the systems' clock is fast - it varies from 10 minutes to even 45 minutes. I always ...
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changing timezone affects cron time

I have set up a cron to run at every 26th minute. $ crontab -l 26 * * * * date > /home/time.txt 2> /home/time_err.txt The current time shown by date command. $ date Thu Aug 25 23:26:00 CDT ...
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How time is affected by the ntpd and /etc/localtime

Can anyone explain how ntpd and /etc/localtime and system clock interact with each other, in UNIX or more specific in freeBSD? I'm giving the following long description of the concepts in case I ...
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Getting time to sync with NTP on Centos 5 VM

My Centos 5 VM is drifting time. I have scoured different answers to solve this problem. I've looked at the VMWare's tips and added tinker panic 0 on top of my ntp.conf file. I also changed the ...
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VMware: How to keep time in guest after suspend

I have Gentoo installed as guest OS. I have hardware clock synced with host system, but the clock of OS tend to be wrong after suspend. The only solution I find out is run hwclock -s frequently via ...
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Best way to say “sync all system clocks to this server, when and ONLY when I say so?” Mixed setup of Windows+Linux servers

Title pretty much explains it. Let's say there's 100 servers, various versions of Windows and Linux, and one Windows server is the "master clock." I did look at this question: How do I synchronize ...
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Virtual PC: Issues with clock when guest Linux has a different timezone to the host OS

I'm running Linux (Centos) under Virtual PC in Windows 7. Guest is set to a different time zone then host OS and none of them are UTC. The issue is that when guest boots its time is always set to ...
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Why does my system clock differ across services?

I have my system clock set to UK time, which is currently +0100 (BST) I set this by symlinking the localtime file, as follows /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London The date ...
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How do I troubleshoot root cause of a hung windows (2003) server?

I have a pair of Windows (2003 Server) servers both running MS SQL Server (2008 EE) that each hang every few months. This has been occurring intermittently :( for the past 15 months pretty much since ...
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Seemingly high clock skew between four systems, normal?

I'm researching a bit of a problem maintaining time synchronization between systems. I finally decided to measure the actual clock variance between hosts, and found that over the course of 13 hours, ...
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Windows Time management: Domain Time II a neccessary product?

I ask as I have become part of a network where they have w32 time disabled on machines, and use Domain Time II. Product info here: http://www.greyware.com/software/domaintime/ Just curious if anyone ...
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SW clock drift problem

i got a problem: my linux software clock seems so have a big drift. In order to correct this (and to make ntpd work) I ran adjtimex. And adjtimex "meassured" a drift over -1700s/day and corrected this ...
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Excessive clock drift on AMD Athlon prevents ntpd from synchronizing clock

I've got an AMD Athlon XP-2500+ host (Shuttle MN31 motherboard, nForce 2 IGP + MCP-T chipset) running 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (i686 2.6.31-20-generic kernel). Unfortunately, it appears that the clock drift ...
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ESXi VM NTP Server

We need to setup an internal NTP server. Because this server will pretty much ONLY be a time server I was thinking of just creating a VM for it. However, Googling around it appears that there there ...
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NTP failing to update

I am attempting to use ntp on the server. Checking ps the ntpd process seems to be running: ntpd -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g However the time is not being corrected, any ideas? The drift ...
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Server clock running too slow

The system clock on my dedicated server is running too slow. Every month it loses about 2 minutes. The details are: Cent OS, Linux version 2.6.9. How can I resolve the problem, is there any way to ...
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ntpdate shows 4second time drift / day

I started ntpdate running every night as a cronjob (on two servers). And every morning I have an email telling me the outcome. On one server it's correcting by about 0.8 seconds every day, which seems ...
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Disconnect Local Clock from Domain Controller Clock

How can I disconnect my workstation clock from the domain controller? In other words, I do not want them synchronized.
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Email shows time 1 hour ahead of server time

I have a dedicated linux server. On plesk it shows the correct local time on the server. However, for all the emails on the server for some reason show the time + 1 hour in outlook. See screenshot ...
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Why would a Windows 2003 server clock reset during a reboot?

After a reboot the windows time reset itself to 26 March 2007. This meant it could not connect to any other servers in the domain. We have set the time to the correct value but we are having ...
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How do I stop the clock running fast on a virtualbox client running ubuntu 8.04?

I'm having a problem with the clock running fast in Ubuntu 8.04 server (2.6.24-24-generic kernel) running in VirtualBox 3.04. It's drifting quickly, something like 5 minutes per hour. I think it was ...
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Changing system date & time in OpenSuse 11.1

Opensuse 11.1 date command shows: # date Wed Dec 23 11:43:27 EST 2009 And I want to change it to current date i.e. July 29 00:50:12 2009. The command I am using to do that is # date -s "29 July ...
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Why does Ubuntu 9.04 reset my Windows clock?

I've got a rig with 2 hard drives. I've put Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on one of the drives and Windows Vista SP2 runs on the other drive. I went with this approach rather than dual boot since I wanted to ...
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Hardware multipliers

Can someone explain the different system multipliers? I know this is a base clock (a.k.a the System clock) then there is a multiplier for the Front side bus (FSB), RAM module, maybe for the RAM ...