On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > Hi, > > We have a little over 100 servers, almost all running CentOS 5.7. > Virtually all are Dell servers, generally a mix of 1950s, R610s, and > R410s. > > We use NTP and/or PTP to sync their clocks. One phenomenon we've > noticed is that (1) on reboot, the clocks are all greatly out of sync, > and (2) if the PTP or NTP process is stopped, the clocks start > drifting very quickly. > > If it was isolated to one or two servers, I'd dismiss the issue. I > also had this problem under CentOS 4. > > I suspect something is mis-configured, because I can't imagine the > hardware clock on ALL these servers is *that* bad. > > Anyone else dealt with anything similar? ---- pretty much everyone deals with this issue in one way or another. You don't actually show us your ntp.conf but generally, I would recommend that you make this the very first line of ntp.conf: tinker panic 0 Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos