Re: 2.5.72: wall-clock time advancing too rapidly?

john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
19 Jun 2003 14:30:06 -0700


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:10, Andy Pfiffer wrote:
> I have a uniproc P3-800 system running 2.5.72, and time (from that
> system's point of view) is racing ahead rapidly.
>
> By "racing ahead rapidly", I mean this:
>
> % date ; sleep 60 ; date
> Thu Jun 19 09:04:29 PDT 2003
> Thu Jun 19 09:05:29 PDT 2003
> %
>
> returns in 35 seconds (measured with my eyeballs and cheap wristwatch).
>
> Has anyone else seen this?

Well, variants on a theme. Can I get more hardware info? Is this a
laptop? Are we running w/ Speed Step?

thanks
-john

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