[Bug 17589] Re: System clock runs far too fast

[Andrew Pam]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:21 +0000, p2k wrote:
> The clock of my Shuttle SN41G2/Athlon XP 3000+ desktop with Nvidia
> nForce2 chipset is running too fast: it gains about 3 seconds per 10
> minutes (verified running 'ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com' every 10 minutes).
> 
> I'm running Dapper Drake 6.06.1, kernel 2.6.15-27-k7, fully apt-get
> updated/upgraded.
> 
> The default tickadj is 10000.
> 
> Issuing the following commands fixes the clock speed :
> > sudo tickadj 9950

I have the same problem with a VIA Samuel 2 (Cyrix C3) CPU on a VIA EPIA
motherboard.  Kernel timekeeping was fine with the 2.4 kernel, but broke
with the 2.6 kernels.  On that server I'm currently running kernel
2.6.16.29 with debian patches under debian stable, but have previously
run kernels from 2.6.8 onwards all of which have this problem.  This
server is running ntpdate every 5 minutes and has gained 1.7 seconds
each time, which sounds the same as your report.  I'll have to try
tickadj and see if it helps.

Regards,
	Andrew
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System clock runs far too fast
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