From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264721AbUEKNlJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 09:41:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264724AbUEKNlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 09:41:08 -0400 Received: from mail45.messagelabs.com ([140.174.2.179]:18077 "HELO mail45.messagelabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264721AbUEKNlE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 09:41:04 -0400 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: justin.piszcz@mitretek.org X-Msg-Ref: server-11.tower-45.messagelabs.com!1084282858!2884706 X-StarScan-Version: 5.2.10; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [141.156.156.57] X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: weird clock problem Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:40:40 -0400 Message-ID: <5D3C2276FD64424297729EB733ED1F7605E28AF2@email1.mitretek.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: weird clock problem Thread-Index: AcQ3XFkL90VLBfEPSLWwYMW6ejEijgAAO0IA From: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" To: , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/