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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Marco Wertejuk" <wertejuk@gmx.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Clock is to slow
Message-ID:  <199908241557.LAA28679@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <006101beee25$4836bca0$5c919582@clayoberschule.de>
References:  <006101beee25$4836bca0$5c919582@clayoberschule.de>

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<<On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:39:05 +0200, "Marco Wertejuk" <nephrose@gmx.net> said:

> I discovered a very interesting thing: When my system is busy the time works
> correctly. For example: I set the screensaver activation time to one second.
> If the system is idle it takes more than 6 minutes until the screensaver
> turns on. If I open a huge file for example "ee /kernel" the screensaver
> turns on during the load process [if it takes more than 1 second].

Turn off power management in your BIOS.  It interferes with proper
timekeeping.

-GAWollman

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