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SubjectRe: Clocks stopped drifting! What happaned?
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On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 11:39, Timothy Miller wrote:
> It used to be that on every computer where I was using Linux, the clocks
> would drift really badly. After a few weeks, they'd all be fast by as
> much as 30 minutes, and it got to be annoying to have to periodically
> reset the time. For instance, this was the case for both a Dell with a
> 1.8GHz Pentium 4 and for a home-built PC with an Athlon XP 2800+ (via
> KT400 chipset).
>
> I just realized that since I upgraded to 2.6.9, that problem has gone
> away. I'm not using NTP, but my clocks are suddenly reliable.
>
> What happened?

I'd be interested if you could narrow down the release where you saw the
change. ie: Does 2.6.8.1 have the problem, or 2.6.7?

My suspicion is the ACPI irq routing changes might have fixed it.

thanks
-john


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