Now this is getting exciting! Well, ya,I'm running vmware in 2 boxes. I am hoping this might help someone w/the config that follows:
socket 939 mb AMD 3200+ clawhammer
1. do: # uname -r returns: 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (CentOS 4.4 stock kernel) 2. edit /boot/grub/grub.conf: make the vmlinuz line look like: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb clock=pit quiet
"clock=pit" is added.
those are the only tweaks I did to produce a stable clock and get rid of that repeating kb problem.
I made these tweaks 2 days ago (Sun). Monitoring it yesterday I never seen the time off more than 1 minute. but I didn't do any thing on that box yesterday. This morning I just changed the user back to rado and testing the key repeat issue right now.
thx Les and Aleksandar for y'alls suggestions.
John Rose