Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263131AbTFTOtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:49:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263152AbTFTOtM (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:49:12 -0400 Received: from camus.xss.co.at ([194.152.162.19]:26643 "EHLO camus.xss.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263131AbTFTOtK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:49:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF32223.6000207@xss.co.at> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:02:59 +0200 From: Andreas Haumer Organization: xS+S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john stultz CC: Andy Pfiffer , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 2.5.72: wall-clock time advancing too rapidly? References: <1056039012.3879.5.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> <1056058206.18644.532.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1056058206.18644.532.camel@w-jstultz2.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1737 Lines: 57 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! john stultz wrote: > 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? > I had this symptom recently on an Asus PR-DLS533 mainboard (ServerWorks GCLE chipset) with linux-2.4.21 and found out it happens only if I had BIOS "USB legacy support" enabled. As soon as I disabled this BIOS option, the phenomenon disappeard. For more info look for lkml thread with subject "system clock speed too high?", Message-ID <3EDBA83B.5050406@xss.co.at> HTH - - andreas - -- Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at *x Software + Systeme | http://www.xss.co.at/ Karmarschgasse 51/2/20 | Tel: +43-1-6060114-0 A-1100 Vienna, Austria | Fax: +43-1-6060114-71 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+8yIhxJmyeGcXPhERAoyRAKDD+bmvWsdoHXtsAUnmQpOivdYlRwCfZZox gofL6W64SQ+Hy8xQMehLeS8= =GEhC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/