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SubjectRe: strange clock fastness with 2.5.70 and chipset i810
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venom@sns.it wrote:

> I just upgraded on a test pc to kernel 2.5.70.
> with this kernel the system clock has become e lot faster (the
> same happens with 2.5.69 too), so what the system thinks to be a second,
> is more or le 0,6 real seconds.
>
> setting HZ to 100 slows down a little, so a system second is almost 0,8
> real seconds.
>
> going back to 2.5.66 or 2.4.20 solves the problem.


Sorry for missing this earlier. This issue is being tracked in bug 827.
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827

The current workaround is booting w/ "clock=pit" but I just sent a patch to
Andrew requesting we disable the lost-ticks code until this is properly
fixed.

thanks
-john

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