Subject: Re: System clock speed too high - 2.6.3 kernel
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Praedor Atrebates <praedor@yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:30, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> In doing a web search on system clock speeds being too high, I found entries 
> describing exactly what I am experiencing in the linux-kernel list archives, 
> but have not yet found a resolution.
> 
> I have Mandrake 10.0, kernel-2.6.3-7mdk installed, on an IBM Thinkpad 1412 
> laptop, celeron 366, 512MB RAM.  I am finding that my system clock is ticking 
> away at a rate of about 3:1 vs reality, ie, I count ~3 seconds on the system 
> clock for every 1 real second.  I am running ntpd but this is unable to keep 
> up with the rate of system clock passage.  
> 
> I had to slow my keyboard repeat rate _way_ down in order to be able to type 
> at all as well.   The system is limited, in that I have no way to alter the 
> actual system clock (in bios at any rate).  The CPU is properly identified as 
> a celeron 366.  
> 
> Does anyone have any enlightenment, or a fix, to offer?  The exact same 
> software setup on a desktop system, Athlon XP2700+, has no such problems.

Could you please send me dmesg output for this system?

Does booting w/ "clock=pit" help?

thanks
-john


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