Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I've got a Fedora 7 (x86) system that started exhibiting truly bizarre > behavior about a week ago. Basically, the clock stopped working. If > I run 'date' it shows the date/time from a few days earlier, and it Recent kernels have become "tickless", a neat idea to stop regular wakeups hundreds of times a second and save on power. AIUI to track time it now refers to a hardware "clocksource" to find out time instead of counting the "tick" interrupts. You can find out what hardware clocksources you have on your machine like this cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource For example I get hpet hpet acpi_pm jiffies tsc (hpet twice? maybe due to dualcore?). You can find out the clocksource you are currently using here cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource hpet is the latest and greatest, but what I would try is to force the kernel to use something other than it is using at the moment, by something like this clocksource=tsc on the kernel commandline, and see if that makes any odds. -Andy
