From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265172AbUEYU0L (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 16:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265173AbUEYU0L (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 16:26:11 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:9856 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265172AbUEYU0I convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 16:26:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:25:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Dejean cc: Michael Buesch , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: System clock running too fast In-Reply-To: <1085514395.11860.8.camel@athlon> Message-ID: References: <200405251939.47165.mbuesch@freenet.de> <1085514395.11860.8.camel@athlon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 May 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Benoît Dejean wrote: > Le mar, 25/05/2004 à 19:39 +0200, Michael Buesch a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I've got the problem with my server, that the system-clock > > is running really fast. It's running over one second too > > fast in one hour (aproximately). > > you should adjust it with adjtimex (there's a debian package) > Ahahh.. Did you accidentally set CONFIG_MELAN in .config? That would do about 1 second fast per hour. If not, then do: echo "">/etc/adjtime (used to be you could delete it), now I think you need to truncate it. Sometimes this file gets corrupt and it takes many settings of stime to undue the corrupt-ness. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.