On Sat, 31 May 2003 12:20:37 +0200 (CEST)
Joel Palmius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've observed a strange behavior of the system time. Under high CPU load,
> the system times moves slower than usual. For example, after having
> compiled system + xfree + kde + gnome (which took about a day), time had
> lagged about half an hour. Under normal load, time works mostly as
> expected, but I have to reset it after having done something intensive.
> 
> Is this an OS thing or a hardware thing? Any ideas what to do about it?  
> NTPd whines about "exceeds saneness limit" when time has lagged too far,
> but works as long as I don't do too long compiles. 
> 
> The system is: Athlon-xp 1800+ / Asus A7V333 / 1 gb mem

This may be a dumb question, but I thought I would just check: Have you built Enhanced 
Real Time Clock Support into your kernel?



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