System clock ticks too fast

RouterOS General
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System clock ticking too fast on x86 platforms bug is present from RouterOS 3.15 till latest 4.5 version. Clock ticks too fast or too slow.

There is one workaround. You must disable NTP client and then set date and time manually and finally restart x86 platform by powering it off and on. However disabling NTP Client is bad.

Please MT fix this very very very nasty and annoying bug.

2

did you try to disable multicore?

3

Well multi-cpu was enabled by default. Testing right now with disabled. Stay tuned.

4

Still testing, but it looks like this solved clock issue!

I’m testing ROS v4.4 right now on Alix.2D2 platform. Normis, maybe it should be good to disable multi-cpu by default on fresh ROS installs? And maybe add info about it after first login after install in Winbox (just as default config etc.)?

5

RoS 4.11 is out. RB230 is still running 10 times faster…

/system hardware
set multi-cpu=no

is not helpful. What’s wrong with my old boards?

6

RB230? does anyone know that? =)

7

This is old MikroTik x86 based router.
BTW:

 /system routerboard> print 
       routerboard: yes
             model: "230r3"
     serial-number: "hidden"
  current-firmware: "1.3.8 (apr/02/2008 10:56:39)"
  upgrade-firmware: "1.3.8 (apr/02/2008 10:56:39)"

There is latest firmware.

8

I mean, does anyone know that BR230 has this problem? did you write to support@?

9

Yes. MT support has been notified about this bug some months ago. It’is not fixed since 4.4.

10

BTW:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=39951&start=0
seems this is nstream-related bug…

11

and what do they say?..

12

as I know nothing. I’ll try to ask rus123 about it.
UPD: bug was fixed in 5.0beta
Why can’t DEV team backport this fixes to 4.11?

13

v5 has new kernel - probably, that fixed the problem…