Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

[Bin Zhang]

On 2/12/06, Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini;
> > Freescale 7447A):
> >
> > $ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date
> > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23
> > Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006
> >
> > Notice the timestamp is 3 minutes in the future compared with the
> > system time.  "make" is not a very happy bunny running on this kernel
> > due to every touched file being 3 minutes in the future.
>
> > In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might
> > be a problem.
>
> Some further information:
> - this does not appear to affect i386 kernels
> - I have
>     CONFIG_HZ_250=y
>     CONFIG_HZ=250
>   in my .config; the full config is at
>   http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/config-2.6.16-rc2
>

I have in my config-2.6.16-rc2 (G4 1.2Ghz, 7447A)
CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
CONFIG_HZ=1000
and have
$ date && touch f && ls -l f && rm -f f && date
Sun Feb 12 21:08:43 CET 2006
-rw-r--r-- 1 zhang zhang 0 2006-02-12 21:08 f
Sun Feb 12 21:08:43 CET 2006

I don't have ntp daemon running (ntpdate at boot).

Regards,
Bin

>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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