Re: Slow system clock?
It was the problem! I disabled APM in the BIOS and let linux run overnight. The
time was accurate the following morning. I just finished rebuilding & booting
a new kernel with APM support and turned BIOS power management back on. I think
it's licked.
Thanks to all who helped me out!
Jason
>On Fri, 24 Sep, 1999 à 09:00:25AM +0000, Jason Christensen wrote:
>> Colin,
>>
>> I think that you may be right. Now that I think about it, the problem only
seems
>> to occur after linux has been running for a long period of time without a
logon
>> (i.e. overnight). I think I have the BIOS configured to kick into sleep mode
>> after a certain time of inactivity. This would make sense as when the system
>> slows down the timer interrupt servicing would occur less frequently. I couldn't,
>> however, find a refence to this problem in the Battery Power Mini-HOWTO at
www.linux.org.
>> I'll try turning off BIOS power management overnight tonight and let you
know
>> what happens. BTW, my kernel is not compiled with power management support,
>> perhaps if I had, this problem wouldn't have occurred? Anyone know for sure?
>>
>I do think that the problem would not occurs if you enable APM in the
>kernel because with APM enabled, system time (i.e. time maintained by
>the kernel) is resetted after a RESUME.
>If you do not want to enable APM in the kernel, a quick fix would be to
>comment the line:
>
>hwclock --systohc $GMT
>
>in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
>
>My decision would be to enable APM unless you have specific problems
>with it.
>
>> Thanks for all your help,
>
>You're welcome.
>
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