Re: Clock running fast?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:25 +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> I've just recently installed RHEL4 update 1 on an Althon 64 machine (a 
> Compaq Presario 1440 if that makes any difference) and the clock seems 
> to be running about twice as fast as it should be (xclock -analog 
> -update 1 is quite entertaining).
> 
> Looking at /proc/cpuinfo it says that the CPU frequency is 994.954MHz 
> but in the output of dmesg it says the CPU clock frequency is about 
> 2200Mhz.   This is with an x86_64 kernel.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?

do you have diskdump or netdump enabled?