Am 31.08.2012 16:19, schrieb Tom Grace: > On 31/08/12 15:09, Rainer Traut wrote: >> I see in sysconfig/ntpd the option g is set which means huge offset is >> one time ignored. But my understanding of ntpd is, it slows or >> accelerated kernel clock but does not make huge jumps... > > With the options you mentioned, NTPd will make a big jump once at startup. > > If the clock is wrong by (if I remember correctly) about 30 mins it will > take so long to drift back to being correct that NTPd gives up. Hmm, no it still does time resets in my tests iIf I set the clock -27s of timesource. This happens: Aug 31 16:30:14 aitcsdb002 ntpd[6062]: time reset +27.006389 s Note, this is a vm under ESXi5 but the VMWare time sync is completely disabled.