Clock moving too fast... again.

I've had this problem before, I think... Here is the thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28538
The short version is that I added "clock=pit" to the kernel boot line in grub, and it worked until now. The argument is still there in my menu.lst. Is it possible that kernel developers actually used some code in the "default" clock timer in the "pit" clock, and transferred a bug?
Everywhere I read of clock skew problems, people mention the CMOS battery. If you run a system almost 24/7 (I rarely turn off my computer) would it matter if the CMOS battery were dying? I'm not sure about this, but I think that linux only reads the time from the CMOS when it boots up, and then it keeps track of time on it's own, so the CMOS battery would have no effect on the system time while the computer was running.
Right now, according to my clock radio (not pc related) it is 1602. My taskbar clock says 1622, and when I run hwclock it says "Mon 04 Jun 2007 04:29:15 PM PDT -0.020001 seconds". So if I understand this correctly, my CMOS clock is actually ahead of my linux clock which is ahead of real time.
Any ideas or new information anyone?

OK, I feel dumb, but I finally solved my problem. I thought that dynamic overclocking was disabled, but my bios has 2 different locations where it can be enabled. I found the second menu where it was enabled and disabled it, and my clock is pretty much perfect now. I had "noapic" in my kernel boot loader line, but I think the proper argument is "apic=no" or something like that. That probably would have solved the problem as well.
I think that this is technically a bug. I've read several kernel bug reports that could actually be the same problem, but it gets kind of confusing because there were so many bugs with somewhat similar symptoms.
I'm not marking this "resolved" because there is still a bug that hasn't been fixed yet. As unlikely as it seems, this thread might get the attention of somebody that actually has the skills required to write a patch. Thanks again guys.
I should throw in some info on my system. It is an MSI k7n2 delta 2
Last edited by Convergence (2007-07-28 11:14:40)

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