From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751191AbVIRNLR (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751215AbVIRNLR (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:11:17 -0400 Received: from 69.50.231.10.ip.nectartech.com ([69.50.231.10]:44959 "EHLO newton.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbVIRNLQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:11:16 -0400 Message-ID: <432D676F.2040208@perkel.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:11:11 -0700 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Serious time drift - clock running fast Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-filter-host: newton.ctyme.com - http://www.junkemailfilter.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Not sure what the problem is but it seem kernel related. If it's not - please forgive me. I'm running and AMD Athlon 64 X2 on an Asus board with NVidia chipset. The software clock gains several seconds every minute. I'm running the 2.6.13 kernel. NTPD doesn't help. It sets the time when it starts but I suspect the drift is too great for it to lock on. How can setting the clock be so hard? Using these settings: CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y Falling asleep .... ZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz Help! -- Marc Perkel - marc@perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com