[rhn-users] Re: System Time Fast

[Andy Purkiss]

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> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:38:46 -0700
> From: Brad Sharpe <bsharpe at mdacorporation.com>
> Subject: [rhn-users] System Time Fast
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> I'm running a HP ML370 Server (Dual CPU) with RHEL 4 and I'm finding that 
> the system time is running extremely fast. I do a hwclock and it reports 
> the correct time but when I do a date the system seems to gain almost 2 
> minutes every 5 minutes passed. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
> 

I'm not certain of the set up of this machine, but I've had similar
problems with a dual-core athlon machine running under FC4. A kernel
update solved the problem (for now)

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171219

for details on the problem I had.

Hope this helps.
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