I've been running vanilla kernel.org kernels on my PowerMac 7600.
With one of the recent 2.6.14-rcX versions, the default value for HZ
could be set to 250 or 1000 for non-interactive machines, with 250
being suggested. So I started running that version, and I noticed
that my system clock no longer tracked my hardware clock.
Even a few minutes after doing
$ ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org
$ hwclock --utc --systohc
the system clock had started falling behind.
Finally I rebuilt the kernel with the old HZ=100 and the problem has
gone away.
Not sure whether this is a kernel problem or an interaction with NTP,
etc., but my x86 machines have HZ=250 and don't exhibit this problem,
so it seems to be powerpc-specific.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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