Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is slow?
I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining a time that does not drift more than a CMOS clock normally does, but my kernel clock will lose approximately 4 hours in every 9. I can set the system clock at 9 PM HST using date and then let Linux run over night. When I take a look at the system clock the following morning, the time is about 4 hours slow. I am running kernel 2.2.12 on a Potato system. BTW, I live in Hawaii and the timezone is set to HST. I keep the CMOS clock set to HST as I have a dual boot Linux/Win98 box. I know that the system clock uses an interrupt to keep time and suspect that might be part of the problem, but do not know all the implications. I have no IRQ conflicts on the system that I am aware of, everything works fine in both Linux and Win98. Besides, the timer is on a well established interrupt that shouldn't conflict with anything. This wouldn't be a problem other than the fact that Debian's hwclock.sh boot script wants to adjust the CMOS time at boot. I could just disable the boot time adjustment but I do not like to reboot the box very frequently and would like to know why the kernel clock is soooo slow. Thanks, Jason
