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Hi!
john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 09:10, Andy Pfiffer wrote:
>
>>I have a uniproc P3-800 system running 2.5.72, and time (from that
>>system's point of view) is racing ahead rapidly.
>>
>>By "racing ahead rapidly", I mean this:
>>
>> % date ; sleep 60 ; date
>> Thu Jun 19 09:04:29 PDT 2003
>> Thu Jun 19 09:05:29 PDT 2003
>> %
>>
>>returns in 35 seconds (measured with my eyeballs and cheap wristwatch).
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this?
>
>
> Well, variants on a theme. Can I get more hardware info? Is this a
> laptop? Are we running w/ Speed Step?
>
I had this symptom recently on an Asus PR-DLS533 mainboard
(ServerWorks GCLE chipset) with linux-2.4.21 and found out
it happens only if I had BIOS "USB legacy support" enabled.
As soon as I disabled this BIOS option, the phenomenon
disappeard.
For more info look for lkml thread with subject "system clock
speed too high?", Message-ID <3EDBA83B.5050406@xss.co.at>
HTH
- - andreas
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