Multi-processor kernel causes time to go faster?

Matthew Hawkins matthew at topic.com.au
Wed Jan 23 19:21:05 EST 2002


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Daniel McNamara wrote:
> My question is why does it run twice as fast and is there anyway of
> adjusting for / stopping it (without having to do a NTP sync every minute).

This sounds really strange to me, I've never seen an SMP system do this.
Perchance, you did compile real time clock support into the SMP kernel,
right?  If not, I'm amazed it even boots - but this could be a likely
culprit.

Cheers,

-- 
Matt




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