Please help: OEL clock running too fast

Question

Hi,
I have tried everything I could find on the internet,
I have downloaded the latest OEL 64bit, installed it on a server (Asus m/b + AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core cpu).
The clock runs 3 times faster than it should, how do I fix this?
Tried all the "noapic" etc options on older RHEL discussions in the grub.conf, but nothing works.
PLEASE someone help!
We are trying to do a OEL + 11g setup.

Answer 1

As a sidenote, please reconsider the previously proposed NTP solution.
Even with systems without clock problems, there will always be a difference in clock speed between computer systems and also with the other systems surrounding them.
Almost any computer system is using remote services, or provides services, or even has a setup where multiple systems are used to provide a single task (for example: the task of having a standby database using dataguard). If diagnosis of events on multiple systems, or diagnose of the sequence of events or tasks is needed, the clocks needs to be in sync. Otherwise diagnosis will be hard or impossible, or simply done wrong.
NTP is the solution for that by carefully examine the local clock speed, and compare it to the networked time sources, and adjusting the clock accordingly.
This is the reason most datacentres have timeservers internally with which computer systems can sync, so the clock is in sync on all systems. These timeservers are internal, thus need no internet access for the time clients. It is advised to use a 3rd party time source for the timeservers (like using timesources on the internet, or have a special card which sync with some atomic clock) But please mind you can do without.