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john_woo@canada.com

2006-07-25, 1:24 pm

Hi,

after install 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux in AMD64, I found
that the system time
goes twice speed of standard.

Can anyone tell how to fix it?

I've tried execute ntpd in root and modified /boot/grub/menu.lst.

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Thanks
John
Toronto

Moe Trin

2006-07-26, 1:22 am

On 25 Jul 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<1153835748.783506.184900@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>, john_woo@canada.com
wrote:

>after install 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux in AMD64, I found
>that the system time goes twice speed of standard.


You've got a boot parameter screwed up. Verify this by running the
following command manually exactly ten seconds apart:

[compton ~]$ grep ' 0:' /proc/interrupts
0: 334061348 timer
[compton ~]$ grep ' 0:' /proc/interrupts
0: 334062331 timer
[compton ~]$

I missed slightly, but notice that there have been 1000 interrupts in
the ten second period, or 100 per second. Your kernel _MAY_ be compiled
for 1000 interrupts per second, in which case the difference in ten seconds
should be close to 10000.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 864,000 for Linux clock twice+as+fast.
(0.57 seconds)

How to fix the Fast Clock issue for AMD Athlon 64 computers ...
Some AMD Athlon 64 Linux Desktops and Laptops suffer from what is known
as the "50% CPU Utilization when idle", and "Clock running twice as
fast" issues. ...
ensode.net/no_timer_check.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

>Can anyone tell how to fix it?


And you didn't think to try using the search engine you posted from? By
the way, are you aware that there _are_ Linux newsgroups, and this
particular problem has been extensively reported there?

>I've tried execute ntpd in root and modified /boot/grub/menu.lst.


NTP is not designed to work with errors in excess of 200 parts per
million. Fix your boot parameters.

Old guy
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