[rescue] Sun U60 running really really fast

Carl R. Friend crfriend at rcn.com
Wed Nov 28 15:08:13 CST 2007


    On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Kevin Fitzgerrell wrote:

> I'm having an unusual issue with a U60 - it seems to be running really
> really fast.  If I do a sleep 1000 it finishes in about 40 seconds.
> Things like vmstat 5 5 show no pauses between the lines of output.
>
> Any ideas?

    How is it doing with the "date" command versus wall-clocks?
You might have an RTC issue or other timekeeping/heartbeat
problem.

+------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin)            | West Boylston       |
| Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast            | Massachusetts, USA  |
| mailto:crfriend at rcn.com                        +---------------------+
| http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum           | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W |
+------------------------------------------------+---------------------+



More information about the rescue mailing list