From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Emfmk-0001h2-L0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:11:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBENA9iB017449; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:10:09 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBEN3xHQ015883 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:04:00 GMT Received: from 203-59-213-82.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.213.82]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 15 Dec 2005 07:01:58 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8387091 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:01:53 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06435-02 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:01:51 +0800 (WST) Received: from rattus (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84406838 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:01:51 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clock problems software clock 20x fast From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200512141130.18846.preludelinux@mchsi.com> References: <200512141130.18846.preludelinux@mchsi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:01:51 +0800 Message-Id: <1134601311.24510.7.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: c836644c-63e3-4bf1-b1e6-8f3191a71968 X-Archives-Hash: f5b3c3a43c18c88c0f9d1b54742d0f24 Things to check: are you using speedfreq or cpufreq? - if the kernel timing sets itself when throtting is in effect, it may not be right when running fast batterystat applets can cause problems with blocking in /proc - this usually causes a loss in time, and I have not seen it with recent kernels. BillK On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:30 +0000, Noah J Norris wrote: > my hardware clock stays correct but the software clock is like going 20x fast > im on a laptop and using noapic the problem goes away but leads to other > problems like network problems happing like errors with internal ethernet > card and ndiswrapper stops working . the processer is amd64 running as x86 > (32bit mode) i get apic errors and lost tick errors . if i leave this on > for a couple hours it becomes days ahead can anyone shead some light on > this ? kernel being used is 2.6.14-r2 i believe > > > thanks > > 'hwclock --hctosys' works to set the time back to what the hardware clock says > > -- > life is linux > linux is life -- William Kenworthy Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list