-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the > hwclock stays at the correct time. > > Anyone knows how to avoid this ? > > (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) > > Fred > Hi,
do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? IE clock down if there is low load and clock up if there is high load? In that case, activate HPET (high precision timer) in your kernel. This compensates the time drift caused by up/downclocking HTH - -- Dirk Raeder I prefer encrypted and signed messages. My GPG key is available at hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de with ID 0x05EB5446 Registered Linux user #378554 http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCX6re2QYJ1wXrVEYRAlKWAJ0bbOIcdN1/U2vUqzjkWHgurEgWyACgh5vJ YhvDSalk3d5jKWUOEgFCrDo= =jEHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
