System clock speedup with latest kernels

[Hans de Goede]

John Thacker wrote:
> 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.  It gains about an
> hour per day.  It runs so fast that NTP won't sync to any clock
> servers because the jitter grows far too fast.  Rebooting to 
> kernel-2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5 works perfectly.  I can switch back and 
> forth between the working kernel-2.6.15-1.2009.4.2_FC5 and the two 
> broken kernels, and the behavior shifts between working and running 
> too fast each time.  (The hardware clock runs perfectly fine too.)
> 
> Anyone else seeing it?  Any more information that would be useful?
> I assume this is related to the "timer fixes" from git9 mentioned
> in the 2028 update, although frankly I don't know enough to be sure.
> Obviously, this is a blocker for me personally, but I haven't seen
> any other complaints.
> 
> John Thacker
> 

I've the feeling it is doing the same over here too, I'll watch it more 
closely now to see if it really is.

Regards,

Hans