Re: [chrony-users] How to avoid oversteering

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 08:02:25PM +0100, Ariel Garcia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i am trying to get Chrony 3.2 running without stepping the clock, but i
> find that it oversteers by a huge amount.  I observe that it starts driving
> the system clock to the right value, but then moves it more that the 
> initial offset in the opposite direction, and starts "oscillating".

This looks like a broken system clock. chronyd is telling the kernel
to slow down or speed up the clock, but it doesn't happen.

What kernel version is the board running? There was a bug which caused
issues like that and it was fixed few years ago. IIRC it was specific
to 32-bit platforms.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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