From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:39:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:39:07 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:9476 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:38:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20010602134003.A183@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 13:40:03 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Sun Qingwei , bug-sh-utils@gnu.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Date goes four times faster! In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Sun Qingwei on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:21:49AM +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org