Clock running fast

[Anthony Atkielski]

Ryan Winograd writes:

> Hi all,
> I recently noticed that the system clock on a machine i recently set up
> is running very quickly, about 2x realtime by my measuring. What can i
> do to solve/investigate this problem? What information would be helpful?

If the machine has network access to an NTP server, you can install and
run the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon to discipline and synchronize
the clock on the machine.  It works very well, holding the clock
accurate to with a tiny fraction of a second (milliseconds, in good
conditions).

Twice real time does sound odd, though.  Clocks are often off by many
seconds a day, but running at twice normal speed sounds like something
may be wrong.

-- 
Anthony