On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: felicity> I've tried "hwclock --systohc" to force the hardware clock to the same felicity> time as the system, didn't help. I'm running NTP and thought maybe The hardware clock is only read during boot, so that couldn't be it... The system clock keeps time by the system timer interrupt, I believe. The timer interrupt is generated by the system's RTC chip. On x86 platforms it is fixed at 100 Hz (only Alpha uses a different value--1024 Hz). I remember reading that the HZ timer could be changed on any platform now, but maybe that was for 2.5 only. So, I wonder if it has something to do with the timer interrupt? Take a look at IRQ 0 in /proc/interrupts. Take a sampling of values over time, and figure out how many interrupts there are per second. Maybe that will shed some light on this... -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886