Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:15 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit :
> F
>
> Assuming I understand the probelm correctly, that is that the bios clock
> keeps correct time, but the linux system time drifts,
Exacly,
> you could try
> using the clock= kernel parameter, which specifies what timesource the
> kernel (and thus the rest of the system) uses for tracking time.
>
> I've had to do this when running linux inside of VMware on a laptop,
> because of cpu frequency scaling. But then the affect wasn't 5min/day,
> it was more like 2sec/sec.
>
> Your choices are "clock=[pit,tsc,cyclone,pmtmr]", although I have no
> idea what "cyclone" is. pit is the default, but you might try pmtmr.
>
> You could also resort to a cron job that does a "hwclock --hctosys"
> every hour or so, although as the hwclock man page says, you might want
> to do this with adjtimex instead.
I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a
kernel bug ? How sould I report this ?
And Thanks to everyone for the help.
Fred
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