Re: huge clock drift?
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:52:12PM +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> Hello
>
> On my new MSI S270 with a Turion, self-compiled kernel 2.6.13-rc2, the
> clock (as reported by date, ie gettimeofday call) is drifting
> consuderably: in less than 7 hours, the date (an ntpdate is setting it
> at boot time) has drifted by -12758 seconds
Which is about 3.5 hours. It looks like your clock goes 50% too
slow?
> But the hardware clock (as reported by hwclock) is still right.
>
> The cpu frequency is adjusted by cpufreqd
So I guess the clock runs at half the speed? This looks like a
kernel bug to me.
> What command fills the /etc/adjtime file?
That's hwclock, and since hwclock says your RTC is still correct,
that's probably not a problem at all.
Kurt
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