[CentOS] Time is Fleeting: CentOS 4 question

Bill Diamond wrote:

>I have recently built a new server using CentOS4.  I've found one major
>oddity: time resolution is completely whacked.
>
>I'm not using an external time source nor am I relying on NTP for time
>resolution.  For some reason, time on this server moves forward at a far
>more rapid rate.
>
>Right now, all my other systems show Sunday May 8, 3:19 pm.  The CentOS
>server thinks its Monday May 9, 3:54 pm.  I just reset it about four
>hours ago to the correct time.
>
>I'm using an inexpensive eMachines T6212 AMD Athon 64 processor and 1 GB
>RAM.  
>
>Can anyone suggest a reason why this server thinks it's 25 hours in the
>future and growing more distant with each minute?
>
>Thanks,
>Bill
>  
>
I don't know about your 64 bit processor but I had a similar problem 
with a 32 bit Athlon XP 2600+ and Fedora Core 3. Turned out to be the 
SMP kernel that was installed as GRUB's default.  It was so bad that NTP 
never settled enough to create a drift file.  When I changed the default 
to non-SMP, the clock resumed keeping time properly.
Yeah, I've read several times that it's O.K. to run SMP kernels with 
single processors....



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