Re: [Rtlinuxgpl] Re: system time running out - again

Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
>>At Mon, 2005-12-26 10:21 "Robson Sales (NETEL - Trana)"
>><[email protected]> posted <[email protected]> to
>>gmane.linux.real-time.rtlinux.general:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all!
>>>
>>>Some time ago, people in this list notified a problem with the system
>>>time (see in
>>>http://www2.fsmlabs.com/pipermail/rtl/2005-February/030056.html).
>>
>>On a single A7N8X-E (Athlon) system, I dual-boot Gentoo and FedoraCore4.
>>I keep both up to date with latest packages.
>>
>>Running FC4 the clock tracks correctly. 
>>
>>With Gentoo it races ahead as you described... and ntpd log messages
>>keep indicating that it is adjusting the system clock, but the
>>adjustments are not having any affect, the clock keeps gaining a second
>>about every 4 minutes. Thus the log messages show increasing the amount
>>it is "adjusting" the clock each adjustment, and that's right about the
>>amount it would take to correct it, but the clock isn't getting
>>corrected.
>>
>>It's obviously not a hardware problem.
>>
> 
> are you using the default kernels from the respective distros + rtlinux patch
> or did you take a vanilla kernel on both ? I could not see how the distro
> would influence things this way provided the same kernel was in use .

I don't understand how this could happen either.

But what I really don't understand is why FSMLabs never says anything about
the gpos-clock running too fast problem. Many people including me are facing
this problem for years now. Does FSMLabs recognize the problem at all? Maybe
they have a fix but only for paying customers? That's OK, but can't they just
tell us poor budgetless people that there is a problem and if possible say
what causes it and whether it could/will be fixed in RTLinuxFree or not?

Theo


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