[Solved] Time is passing too fast ! ! !

didymus · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 6

Hi.

I have a problem with my system time. It is going too fast and I don't know why. I used slamd64 befor gentoo on AMD64 and there was the same problem!

Does anyone know how I could fix the problem?

Crenshaw · Guru Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 474 Location: Poland

Twice as fast? Yawn. Read FAQ on this forum.

Emopig · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 188

I dont think he means forum time, but the time on his system...

Coincedentally i've noticed my computer clock has been drifting alot recently...but mines too slow, for example, according to my clock in gnome-panel it's 11:01am, when infact it's 11:28am and I only corrected this a few days ago.
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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

Time drift of more then a few seconds per day usually indicates lost interrupts or a heavily loaded system. (NTP might or might not be able to compensate... it talks about this deep within the documentation.)

didymus · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 6

If I look to my watch and see e.g. 1 minute passing, then the time of my system shows 2 minutes passing. That means my system is twice as fast as my watch.
NTP won't work with this problem, because I had to run it every minute to see the correct time.....

What could I do?

grodzik86 · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Try adding "ec_burst=1" and "noapictimer" to the bootloader config. It worked on my laptop. If that won't work try to search the forum for other options of that kind.

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

From the forum FAQ:

didymus · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 6

I've tried "clock=pmtmr notsc" and "noapictimer" without success.

I have a AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3700+, whith motherboard I don't know. Maybe you can find it anywhere...

Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda6 clock=pmtmr notsc)
Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 (root@didymus) (gcc-Version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.

) #5 SMP Fri Aug 18 03:32:08 CEST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009b800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009b800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037ea0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037ea0000 - 0000000037eaf000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037eaf000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000037f00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x00000000000f7ee0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037eaa47e
ACPI: FADT (v001 FUJ W37 0x06040000 W37 0x000f4240) @ 0x0000000037eaedbd
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0000000037eaee31
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037eaef6a
ACPI: MCFG (v001 PTLTD MCFG 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0000000037eaefc4
ACPI: DSDT (v001 FUJ W37 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x0000000000000000
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Number of nodes 1
Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 0000000037ea0000
Using 63 for the hash shift.
Using node hash shift of 63
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000037ea0000
On node 0 totalpages: 223858
DMA zone: 2005 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 221853 pages, LIFO batch:31
Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
Setting APIC routing to flat
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ 4016000000 size 32 MB
Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 clock=pmtmr notsc
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 131072 bytes)
time.c: Using 3.579545 MHz PM timer.
time.c: Detected 800.045 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 893684k/916096k available (4731k kernel code, 22008k reserved, 1980k data, 268k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1603.02 BogoMIPS (lpj=801512)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU 0(1) -> Node 0 -> Core 0
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Detected 12.500 MHz APIC timer.
Brought up 1 CPUs
Disabling vsyscall due to use of PM timer
time.c: Using PM based timekeeping.
testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 3)
ACPI-0412: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_TIME
ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node ffff810037e31c00), AE_TIME
ACPI-0156: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node ffff810037e31c00), AE_TIME
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x1200-0x120f has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:09.0
IO window: 0000a400-0000a4ff
IO window: 0000a800-0000a8ff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
MEM window: 52000000-53ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
GSI 16 sharing vector 0xB1 and IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
IA32 emulation $Id: sys_ia32.c,v 1.32 2002/03/24 13:02:28 ak Exp $
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/W].
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.07 initialized. soft_noboot=0 soft_margin=60 sec (nowayout= 0)
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery absent)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI-0412: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_TIME
ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.TZS0._TMP] (Node ffff810037e25340), AE_TIME
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS2] (49 C)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
GSI 17 sharing vector 0xB9 and IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and petero2@telia.com
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.5 (November 4, 2005)
bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link failures! see bonding.txt for details.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.14-k4-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48.
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
8139cp: pci dev 0000:02:07.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
GSI 18 sharing vector 0xC1 and IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffc20000010000, 00:0a:e4:a9:aa:bc, IRQ 193
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 1.1.3
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
STRIP: Version 1.3A-STUART.CHESHIRE (unlimited channels)
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_plx 0.15rc3 (Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>)
orinoco_tmd 0.15rc3 (Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>)
orinoco_nortel 0.15rc3 (Tobias Hoffmann & Christoph Jungegger <disdos@traum404.de>)
airo: Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_plx: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_pci: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PHILIPS DVD+/-RW SDVD8431, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x92a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.20 loaded.
Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.04
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.04
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:09.0 [1734:1092]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:09.0, mfunc 0x010a1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ef8, PCI irq 177
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xafff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0200000 - 0xc02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x50000000 - 0x51ffffff
GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 201, io mem 0xc0002000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x92a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 201, io mem 0xc0000000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 201, io mem 0xc0001000
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: Disabling reads from problem bidirectional printer on usblp0
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Unidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1104
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
wbsd: Winbond W83L51xD SD/MMC card interface driver, 1.5
wbsd: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 03:29:15 Aug 18 2006
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc3 (Mon Nov 07 13:30:21 2005 UTC).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ALSA device list:
#0: ATI IXP rev 2 with ALC655 at 0xc0003400, irq 185
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
NET: Registered protocol family 4
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.4)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x8 (1350 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV)
powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe (1200 mV)

powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x10 (1150 mV)
powernow-k8: 5 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x18 (950 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0x0, vid 0x18
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
Adding 1807272k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1807272k
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x48/0xf0
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

Emopig · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 188

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

Well, I see that you're still using "Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r5". Maybe try a new kernel build (2.6.17 is the current gentoo-sources)?

(As always, leaving the old kernel in the grub menu for at least a few months, just in case...)

didymus · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 6

Hi again.

The problem was solved with adding "ec_burst=1" and "noapictimer" to the bootloader config!
Thanks for helping.

I'll try the new kernel, maybe it will work too...

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

Saw lines:

ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI-0412: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_TIME
ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.TZS0._TMP] (Node ffff810037e25340), AE_TIME
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZS2] (49 C)

Note the various lines towards the end:

warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip __do_softirq+0x48/0xf0

Losing ticks is a semi-common problem and there used to be a very large thread about it floating around in this forum. See if that issue still shows up after the kernel option changes or after a new kernel is installed.

PS: Don't forget to edit the subject line of the original post with [solved] if you think it's solved enough to move on.

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

Heres how I fixed it

1. I use the latest stable kernel(just gentoo sources)
2. I turned on ACPI and made sure the CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER was set to y(I think it is by default in newer kernels look in your .config file if your not sure) this solved it for me
3. I setup NTP just to make sure

axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

A mate's amd64 had a similar problem usually only when running vmware under Gentoo. The rtc was affected so bad even the keyboard type rate was going crazy. Upgrading from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17 and enabling some extra SMP stuff when we did a "make oldconfig" fixed the issue.

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

The problem only happened for me when doing CPU intensive stuff like compiling or playing a game. So that makes sence it happened when he used vmware.