Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Clocks stopped drifting! What happaned? | From | john stultz <> | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:02:54 -0800 |
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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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