Hi, I'm in the middle of migrating our oracle servers to RHEL and C6; while testing ntpd I'm seeing time resets. 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... Is this really expected behaviour? The file step-tickers is empty, ntp.conf is minimal: driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery restrict 127.0.0.1 restrict -6 ::1 server 10.0.1.27 /var/log/messages: Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5816]: ntpd 4.2.4p8 at 1.1612-o Thu May 13 14:38:25 UTC 2010 (1) Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: precision = 0.065 usec Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #3 eth1, fe80::20c:29ff:fef1:3fee#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #4 eth0, fe80::20c:29ff:fef1:3fe4#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #5 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #6 eth0, 10.0.4.16#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on interface #7 eth1, 10.0.5.16#123 Enabled Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: Listening on routing socket on fd #24 for interface updates Nov 20 12:48:06 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: kernel time sync status 2040 Aug 31 16:00:51 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: synchronized to 10.0.1.27, stratum 3 Aug 31 16:00:51 aitcsdb002 ntpd[5817]: time reset +277092510.162464 s Thx