From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264815AbUELHDD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 03:03:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264988AbUELHDD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 03:03:03 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:31505 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264815AbUELHDB (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 03:03:01 -0400 Message-ID: <40A1CC90.3040609@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:04:48 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040509) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nelis@brabys.co.za CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: weird clock problem References: <1084282171.8334.46.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za> In-Reply-To: <1084282171.8334.46.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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