Hi all,

I have 3 set computer installed Redhat 8 with samba. I find the time are slow down. About 1 week will slow 30 mins.
These 3 computer are not connect internet and I havn't set any time server.

Why the server slow down?


3 set PC is new hardware:
P4 3.0G
512B DDR
Asus Motherboard

Thank you for helping

have u checked ur BIOS battery on the motherboard??
this is responsible for such things

regards

I have check motherboard and bios is ok. (I afraid MB error,I change a new Motherboard too)

It happens graduately (e.g. 4 min per days)

or 'all of sudden' at a certain time in a week?

And the same on these 3 PCs, right?

I only find the time will slow 2 weeks (arround 45 mins)
But the server is very far.I can't check it every day.


Thank you for helping

But since they are linux, you can use some tools such as ssh to remotely log in and have a look.

You can even automate the job to monitor.

maybe something like 'ssh <server> date"

then schedule it to run every 1 or 2 hours as a cron job...

Of course, before you do all these hard labor, you should check the /var/log/message to see if any odd stuff happened...

Hi all,

Thank you your helping first!

Now I post for details for this case.


P4 520 (28GHz,800FSB,1MB Cache,socket 775)
1GB DDR 400 (Samsung)
ECS 915-m5 (i915GV)
120GB P-ATA

Rehat 8.0,Kernel is orignal 2.4.18
Samba
Webmin 1.20

I find out the software time is slower 3 mins every day.
But Hardware Time is correct. (All info find out in webmin)
Every day the server is shut down at 18:00 and startup at 8:30 in morning.
I changed a new otherboard for testing. The case is same. The old motherboard run windows xp home and test the time. No problem found.
Is it Redhat 8.0 problem or something I miss?

If the hardware clock is set correctly, but the system time is not check out the "hwclock" command.

You'll probably want to try something like "hwclock --hctosys"

-Jake