[CentOS] clock, centos 4 and dual core?

Wed Feb 15 14:16:52 UTC 2006
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

>         I have a dual core athlon server and it is gaining 1 day every 2 days
> w/o time sync.  Even with ntpd running, the time is not under control.
> I must put a very frequent cronjob of 'ntpdate' to keep the time under
> control.  This creates big problems since winbind eventually stops
> working so my users can't access their data.

As I remember, this is an apic/apci (I get the two confused
constantly) error. Sometimes a bios update fixes it. Sometimes you
have to add some kernel options to grub, like noapci or noapic..
whichever one it is... Something like that. I'm sure someone here will
correct me, but that should point you in the right general direction.

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