Bug#626427: Horrible Time Skew, Eventual Near-zero Responsiveness

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:

> OK.  Please understand that I'm a bit busy at the moment, so I can't devote
> as much time as I'd like.

Thanks and no problem.  I don't think there's any need to try the experimental
kernel.

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> I've included all logs since the last report for Linux and ntpd.  Hopefully
> this is absolutely everything you guys need to work out what/if something's
> changed.

Sounds like it's still broken.

I had missed before that this was a 1999-era board.  Lots of those have
trouble with ACPI so in that light the symptoms seem less surprising.
I suspect the best Linux could do to address this is to automatically disable
acpi when appropriate.

Thanks again for the logs!  I'm keeping this closed because I think
you've provided enough information for the interested and the
workaround is discoverable enough.  Thanks for indulging my curiosity
--- I'll see if there's anything for upstream to learn from this.

Cheers,
Jonathan