Re: PROBLEM: Linux system clock is running 3x too fast

[Nick Piggin]

Fast Clock wrote:

> My Athlon 64 laptop (HP Pavilion zv5000z) dual-boots Linux and Windows
> XP. The Windows system clock is running accurately but the Linux system
> clock is running 3 times too fast.
>
> The problem occurs in all of the Linux distributions and releases that
> I've tried, including Suse 9.1, Fedora Core 1 & 2, kernel versions
> 2.4.x, 2.6.x (up to 2.6.8-1.521), 32-bit & 64-bit releases.

This is a feature. The kernel detects users with the name fastclock
and accordingly speeds up the clock for them.

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