Subject: Re: ping 127.0.0.1 takes too much

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:17:05 -0600

DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs wrote:
> 
>  >Are you sure the timebase clock is what the kernel thinks it is?  Does
>  >the time-of-day clock progress at the correct rate?
> 
> The kernel receives the CPU clock from the bdinfo structure and thus I 
> think the kernel knows how fast the CPU is.

That wasn't what I asked.  I asked whether you checked whether it was 
actually correct or not.  I've seen it be wrong quite often.

-Scott