(SOLVED) ntp gone wild

[Derek Broughton]

Luis wrote:

> Well, turns out that SMP systems NEED rtc loaded in order to work with
> the time of the BIOS. I had rtc compile as a module (which is the
> default way for Ubuntu Stock kernels as well).
> 
> According to the kernel documentation:
> 
> If you run Linux on a multiprocessor machine and said Y to
> "Symmetric Multi Processing" above, you should say Y here to read
> and set the RTC in an SMP compatible fashion.
> 
> In short, Ubuntu's stock kernels should have compile-in rtc modules if
> they have SMP enabled (which they do).

hmmm.  I'm not sure about that.  After all, many of us run the SMP-enabled
kernel, but _don't_ have an MP machine.  
-- 
derek