Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262806AbUKXTkE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:40:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262821AbUKXTkE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:40:04 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:17938 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262806AbUKXTkB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:40:01 -0500 Message-ID: <41A4E37C.7060501@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:39:40 -0500 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Clocks stopped drifting! What happaned? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 16 It used to be that on every computer where I was using Linux, the clocks would drift really badly. After a few weeks, they'd all be fast by as much as 30 minutes, and it got to be annoying to have to periodically reset the time. For instance, this was the case for both a Dell with a 1.8GHz Pentium 4 and for a home-built PC with an Athlon XP 2800+ (via KT400 chipset). I just realized that since I upgraded to 2.6.9, that problem has gone away. I'm not using NTP, but my clocks are suddenly reliable. What happened? - 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/