On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 16:05, Greg Murphy wrote: > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in a week, so if > that previous assumption is correct, then that would rule out the cmos > battery. What could cause this loss of time. The only thing that has been > slightly different that I can think that might could cause it is that lately > I have been constantly running some intensive tasks reniced to +19. Could > something like that cause this problem, or is my problem elsewhere? Any > ideas? Thanks. Maybe you have a bad time adjustment. I had a similar problem once that was caused by that. Have a look at 'man hwclock' and check /etc/adjtime.
Hope that helps. Bye, Steffen
