RE: weird clock problem

["Piszcz, Justin Michael" <justin.piszcz@mitretek.org>]

I also have the same problem running Linux 2.6.5 under VMWARE (latest)
for WindowsXP.

If I do not sync every five minutes, the begins to drift a lot!

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Nelis Lamprecht
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:30 AM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: weird clock problem

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. With kernel 2.6.5 ntpd would
work on startup and then die saying no servers could be reached which I
assume was because my clock was so far off.

I have since downgraded to 2.6.3 and now ntpd is keeping time as it
should.

Anybody else come across this behaviour ? I'm running Gentoo on an IBM
ThinkCentre P4 3ghz. I also have APM enabled in both kernels.

Cheers,
Nelis

ps. Please CC me in on your reply as I am not subscribed.

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