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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:55:41 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Josh Myer <jbm@joshisanerd.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift
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Hi!

> I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has
> noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the
> clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the
> cause? (Google didn't show up anything worthwhile in the first couple of
> pages, so i gave up).

Vesafb can do this kind of stuff. Vesafb is evil to interrupt latency,
and at .5sec interrupt latency, clock will loose time.
								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
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