On Saturday 20 August 2005 05:13 pm, Andy Green wrote:
> On Saturday 20 August 2005 20:45, Johan Lozano wrote:
> > Suddenly I noticed that the clock didn't show the right time on the
> > Has anybody experienced this phenomenal too or is it just on my laptop?
>
> I also have this on a Athlon 64 X2 DFI motherboard with the FC4 x86_64 SMP
> kernel. Time does not seem to pass at double speed here but it does pass
> faster than realtime. Sometimes it only gains an hour or so overnight.
>
> I wondered if it was to do with running XP in vmware, I didn't look too
> closely at it yet.
>
> -Andy
The ntp daemon also has a time (drift) adjustment.
>From man ntpd;
/etc/ntp/ntp.conf - the default name of the configuration file
/var/lib/ntp/drift - the default name of the drift file
/etc/ntp/keys - the default name of the key file
Also the kernel has clock throttling for the CPU. This might be affecting the
time, though on non-laptops it is usually a RTC chip.
