Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:30:50 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: kernel losing time |
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 04:02:07PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 erik@debill.org wrote: > > Would this explain my computer losing 2-3 minutes of time while > > ripping a cd? Normally it's dead on (w/ ntpd running to guarantee > > that) but while ripping or burning it loses so badly ntpd can't keep > > up. > > We call it 'heavy interrupt load'. The more errors can happen, the more > errors do happen. (And by the way, I've already seen VIA chipsets jump off > by hours.)
It's always the same amount - about four hours - there is an underflow to negative values with unsigned ints.
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