Folks - I'm having problem with time on my machine. I got an emachines T6212 and I am running the x86_64 version of FC3. The system time runs very fast, almost twice as fast as my watch. In just a day, my computer thinks that it is tomorrow. I can work around this by disabling the APIC, using a BIOS setting. This problem was reported earlier by somebody else, and is in bugzilla as #152170. So why do I still need help? After I disable the APIC, my network transfers go very slow (around 40 kbytes/second on my local network). If I ping out of my machine or ping to it from another machine, every other ping takes around 800 msec, then I get a 1 msec ping, then 800, then 1, etc, etc. If I watch the little lights flash on my network switch while doing a big transfer, it looks like there is a delay of close to a second between flashes. So, what the heck is going on here? Why do I need to have the APIC interrupts to get decent network performance? Is there something I can set to slow down the darn clock and solve all my problems at once? -Pete-
