System clock speedup with latest kernels

Joachim Frieben jfrieben at freesurf.fr
Fri Mar 10 21:18:25 UTC 2006


For SMP systems, this kind of bug has been around for ages, see my almost
prehistoric bug report from 2001:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55223

The kernel got finally fixed in November 2005 and is broken again since
January 2006. Curious to see, that UP systems are now hit, too. Adding the
"noapic" kernel option did the job for me.

>
> Anyone else seeing this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184593 ?
>
> With the last two kernels, 2.6.15-1.2032_FC5 and 2.6.15-1.2038_FC5, the
> system clock starts running too fast for me. ...
>





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