On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Paul Barrett wrote:

> I originally installed CENTOS4.4 to try something new and was having this=
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> problem so I installed SL4.4 instead and still have the problem.

Both Centos and SL use the same kernel.  So I would expect that they are 
the same.

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> System is a IBM Workstation P4 with 512megs of ram and an nvidia card. I
> removed the Firewire card. SL Linux is installed in an almost minimal ser=
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> ver
> install with vim and elinks as options.
>
> The problem is that after setting the time with rsync and hwclock within
> about two ours they are drastically out of sync. The Hwclock has the corr=
>
> ect
> time but the systime by issuing 'date' is wrong. I have checked the
> /etc/sysconfig/clock and it is set to utc=3Dfalse and both the hwclock an=
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> d
> systime will be correct after doing the rsync.
>
> Additionally and most desturbing is the following. If I issue the date
> command multiple times sometimes it returns a result that can be a few
> seconds to a minute earlier than previously reported.
>
> Is systime interupt driven and if so what irqs might have a conflict?
>
> Any thoughts whatsoever could help.

> Thanks in advance.
>

-Connie Sieh