On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Eric Benson wrote: > On a Thinkpad T41p running Fedora Core 3 kept up-to-date since November. > Recently, in the past two or three weeks, the clock has been incorrect > every time I resume from ACPI suspend. Before that it was always correct > when it woke up. Now the clock is always fast when it wakes up. It > appears to be proportional to how long it has been sleeping, as if the > clock were running consistently extremely fast while asleep, but I > haven't run any tests to see if it is reproducible. I've been fixing it > by restarting ntpd. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.10-1.741, but I've > had all of the kernel updates since FC3 came out. I can't say for sure > that the problem started with a kernel update, but it may have coincided > with the first 2.6.10 kernel. > > Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? Noticed this as well. (with APM/600E). This is more pronounced with Vmware. [haven't looked at bugzilla yet to see if this is reported] One workarround is to rebuild the kernel with HZ=100 instead of the default HZ=1000 (CONFIG_X86_HZ flag is available for -ac kernels) Satish