Re: weird clock problem

[Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>]

Nelis Lamprecht wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Over the past few weeks I've been having major problems keeping time on
>my machine with kernel 2.6.5. At first I thought it was a problem with
>ntpd but as it turns out it's my kernel.
>
>The problem became evident while copying vast amounts of data across to
>my machine. While I was copying data to it via scp my random
>Xscreensaver kicked in displaying the clock and the first thing I
>noticed was that the clock was advancing at a rapid rate. At the same
>time I could not type anything as it would just repeat everything I
>typed 10 fold. Basically the whole system behaved like it was on
>steroids while I was copying to it and by the time I had finished
>copying the clock was 2hrs ahead of time.
>
Take a look at /proc/interrupts. Is the timer interrupt
shared with something?

Helge Hafting