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Bug 8489 - System time is slow.
Summary: System time is slow.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High major
Assignee: Brandon Low (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-09-27 19:40 UTC by Ulrik Mikaelsson
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrik Mikaelsson 2002-09-27 19:40:35 UTC 
My system time is running to slow, it slows about 1 hour per 24 hours. 
 
This of cause is very irritating as well as it can sometimes be somewhat 
problemativ regarding synchronizations etc. 
 
I haven't been able to isolate the problem, but I have checked /etc/rc.conf 
and CLOCK is set to "local" and /etc/localtime is pointing to 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Stockholm as supposed to. 
 
It seems the clock is running fine in Winsnooze and I had no problems 
previously in Redhat. 
 
I randomly run either KDE or Fluxbox and the problem seems to exist in both of 
them (I've read bug# 4825). 
 
Anyone with any Ideas?
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-09-27 20:47:43 UTC 
install ntp
Comment 2 Ulrik Mikaelsson 2002-09-27 21:28:14 UTC 
Yeah, one good solution, but have anyone got any idea of why this is actually 
happening? (Not everyone have got the option to synchronize through NTP every 5 
mins)
Comment 3 Markus Krainer 2002-09-28 01:15:37 UTC 
Remove /etc/adjtime.
Comment 4 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-09-30 22:13:52 UTC 
what kernel you using?  did you set the HZ value in your kernel config to
something other than 100?
Comment 5 Ulrik Mikaelsson 2002-10-01 06:24:02 UTC 
The standard Gentoo 2.4.19 kernel. I did not change the HZ value in the kernel 
config. 
 
Removing /etc/adjtime worked, but I wonder how it can have gone wrong.