Hi,
Please correct me if I am sending this to the wrong list.
I would like to debug the following issue, which I suspect is related
to cpu losing track of time when going idle.
When I run the following script :
#!/bin/bash
# set hwclock to system clock to start
# the log file with the same time
hwclock -w
#start with a fresh logfile
touch clocktest.log
echo START > clocktest.log
while [[ true ]]
do
systime=$(date)
hwtime=$(hwclock -r)
echo "$systime | $hwtime" >> clocktest.log
sleep 20
done
Expected output :
On each line, the system time (left) and hardware time (right)
should be roughly the same. Time delta between each line should be
around 20 seconds
Observed output :
This is an edited version of the real logfile so that it fits on one
line. the date was removed.
START
15:09:43 (UTC+0200) | 15:09:44 CEST -0.500555 secondes
15:10:04 (UTC+0200) | 15:10:05 CEST -1.001562 secondes
15:10:25 (UTC+0200) | 15:10:26 CEST -0.985944 secondes
15:10:46 (UTC+0200) | 15:15:46 CEST -0.032792 secondes <-- 5 minute lag !
15:11:06 (UTC+0200) | 15:16:07 CEST -0.985926 secondes
15:11:27 (UTC+0200) | 15:16:28 CEST -1.001539 secondes
15:11:48 (UTC+0200) | 15:16:49 CEST -0.985969 secondes
15:12:09 (UTC+0200) | 15:17:10 CEST -0.985977 secondes
15:12:30 (UTC+0200) | 15:17:31 CEST -1.001544 secondes
15:12:51 (UTC+0200) | 15:17:52 CEST -0.985920 secondes
15:13:12 (UTC+0200) | 15:18:13 CEST -0.985939 secondes
15:13:33 (UTC+0200) | 15:18:34 CEST -1.001581 secondes
15:13:54 (UTC+0200) | 15:18:55 CEST -0.985917 secondes
15:14:15 (UTC+0200) | 15:29:15 CEST -0.079685 secondes <-- add
another 10 minute
15:14:35 (UTC+0200) | 15:29:36 CEST -1.001568 secondes
15:14:56 (UTC+0200) | 15:29:57 CEST -0.985952 secondes
As you can see, after 20 minutes without touching the computer, the
system time is late by 15 minutes.
This was tested on ubuntu 10.04 with a 2.6.32 "vanilla" kernel where
"vanilla" means ubuntu packaged
upstream kernel closest to the distribution shipped kernel.
How can I debug and possibly fix this issue ?
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