I've been trying to get a realtime kernel running, but every kernel I've tried with a realtime patch slows my clock to a crawl, which causes my time (as shown with the date command) to be off. It also causes any program that has a delay to wait far longer than it should. "sleep 1" can take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. My most recent try was with patch-2.6.15-rt16, which I've tried applying to both the 2.6.15 and 2.6.15.2 kernels, with the same result. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong, since no one else on this list seems to be having this problem. Chuck