Re: Date goes four times faster!

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Sat, 2 Jun 2001 13:40:03 +0200


Hi!

> I'm using Redhat linux 7.0 on an HP vectra vei8-Piii450 computer. My
> desktop environment is Gnome 1.2.1.
> This noon I found that the date went four times faster! It was going well
> before about 11 PM Wen May 30. But after that the date

:-) On my system, date likes to go 3 times slower when I do heavy
scrolling. Maybe we should teach our computers to do something in the
middle ;-).
Pavel

> displayed by commod "date" accelerated. It told me Thu May 31 00:54:52 CST
> 2001 while my watch was Wen May 30 17:40.
> Also the "clock" applet on the Panel of Gnome told me 12:57 AM Thu
> May 31!

Can you do cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 1; cat /proc/interrupts?

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