Time is running way to fast on FC4/FC3-x86_64 (Andy Green)

[David G. Miller]

andy at warmcat.com wrote:

>On Saturday 20 August 2005 20:45, Johan Lozano wrote:
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>>> Suddenly I noticed that the clock didn't show the right time on the
>>> Has anybody experienced this phenomenal too or is it just on my laptop?
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>I also have this on a Athlon 64 X2 DFI motherboard with the FC4 x86_64 SMP 
>kernel.  Time does not seem to pass at double speed here but it does pass 
>faster than realtime.  Sometimes it only gains an hour or so overnight.
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>I wondered if it was to do with running XP in vmware, I didn't look too 
>closely at it yet.
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>-Andy
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>!DSPAM:4307998470981632221273!
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Known problem with certain chipsets for the AMD 64 bit CPUs.  Try adding:

no_timer_check=0

to your kernel boot parameters.  There is an open kernel bug for this 
problem.

Cheers,
Dave