[COLUG] Linux Clock Skew Fix

[Jeffrey Tadlock]

Joshua Kramer wrote:
> If I recall correctly, there was discussion on this list a while back 
> about people's clocks running too fast under various Linux distros and 
> architectures, and the first thing to check was bulging capacitors.
> 
> Microsoft has issued a fix for this:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918461
> 
> I tried this on my system, and I can now happily report that my three 
> linux boxen, all of which had sloppy clocks, now keep time on the dot!

VMware has suggested that for Linux boxes running on their VM software 
for quite some time now.  I tend to run CentOS in my VMs and the 
clock=pit has worked for them quite well.  Before adding that the clock 
drift was so bad that it could lose 5 minutes over the course of an hour 
or so.

--Jeffrey