Subject: Re: 2.6.8 Thinkpad T40, clock running too fast
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Shawn Willden <shawn-lkml@willden.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 14:51, Shawn Willden wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the clock on my Thinkpad running too fast.  My clock
> is gaining about 4 seconds every five minutes of operation.  I'm actually not
> sure when this started because NTP has been fairly successful at keeping my
> clock under control, so I didn't really notice it until I spent some time
> operating disconnected... and then it became very obvious very quickly.

Does this go away if you disable cpufreq in your kernel config?

Also, looking at /proc/interrupts, does it look like you're getting more
then ~1000 interrupts per second?

thanks
-john


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