Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:02:59 +0200 | From | Andreas Haumer <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.72: wall-clock time advancing too rapidly? |
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Hi!
john stultz wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:10, Andy Pfiffer wrote: > >>I have a uniproc P3-800 system running 2.5.72, and time (from that >>system's point of view) is racing ahead rapidly. >> >>By "racing ahead rapidly", I mean this: >> >> % date ; sleep 60 ; date >> Thu Jun 19 09:04:29 PDT 2003 >> Thu Jun 19 09:05:29 PDT 2003 >> % >> >>returns in 35 seconds (measured with my eyeballs and cheap wristwatch). >> >>Has anyone else seen this? > > > Well, variants on a theme. Can I get more hardware info? Is this a > laptop? Are we running w/ Speed Step? > I had this symptom recently on an Asus PR-DLS533 mainboard (ServerWorks GCLE chipset) with linux-2.4.21 and found out it happens only if I had BIOS "USB legacy support" enabled. As soon as I disabled this BIOS option, the phenomenon disappeard. For more info look for lkml thread with subject "system clock speed too high?", Message-ID <3EDBA83B.5050406@xss.co.at>
HTH
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