Re: 2.6.10-rc3 vs clock

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Monday 13 December 2004 09:04, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>On Monday 13 of December 2004 13:29, David Weinehall wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:11:16AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > At -rc2 my clock kept fairly decent time, but -rc3 is running
>> > fast, about 30 seconds an hour fast.
>>
>> Lucky you. Each time I suspend my laptop the clock speeds up
>> approximately x2...  Usually, the time it takes me to get from
>> home to work means that the computer tells me I arrived half an
>> hour late...
>
>I see something strange that may be related to these issues.  When I
> turn off my box and turn it on again after a couple of hours, and
> run Linux, the clock is apparently late, although it shows the
> right time in the CMOS setup right before booting the kernel.  The
> amount of time the clock is late (in Linux) depends on how much
> time the box has been off (it increases about 4 min. for each hour,
> so the clock is about 30 min. late if the box has been off for 8
> hours).
>
>This has been present on all kernels since 2.6.8 at least (I did not
> run earlier kernels on this box), but I haven't tried
> 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 yet.

This is not something I've noted, but then this box is only shut off
to blow the dirt out and clean & regrease the flower on the cpu at
about 6 month intervals.

>> > I've been using ntpdate, is that now officially deprecated?
>>
>> I kind of doubt that...
>
>Me too. ;-)
>
>Greets,
>RJW

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