Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mykal Funk wrote: > > >> I replaced the battery and the behavior didn't change. The time loss >> occurs only under high load. When uptime reports a high load average, >> the system loses time like crazy. When it is just sitting doing nothing >> it keeps perfect time. I don't know what to make of it. Perhaps someone >> else can. >> > > What kernel are you running and what is the HW again? > I'm running 2.6.30.9 kernel on an ancient 486DX. > It sounds like the interrupt system is losing time ticks and may just be > a symptom of old hw and (possibly) how the kernel handles the > interrupts. It's possible it can be fixed in the kernel configuration. > > It could also be a HW error. > > -- Bruce > Possibly, but this didn't show up under the 2.4.x kernel. It kept time. After I installed the 2.6.x kernel is when I first noticed the clock skew.
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