Martin 53N 1W wrote:

mijikin wrote:

Whenever I run seti (v.4.02) with boinc (v.4.05), my system clock
slows down at a rate of about 5 minutes per hour. My computer is a
Pentium III running Mandrake 9.0. I did not have this problem with
the old seti classic.

I searched various newsgroups for a solution but did not find
anything similar reported.

Does anyone have a hint?

Very strange...

It might just be a SETI coincidence and in reality it is your clock
battery that is failing.

Indeed. Applications can't make a clock run slow! You could try installing
something like the free atomic clock sync, which regularly synchronises your
PC clock with a time server.

Just in case: try checking /var/log/messages for any missed
interrupts. Are you running seti at a high priority?

You could run ntpd to maintain your clock time to one of the public
time sources.

And Mandrake 10.0.1 is a little more recent (;-))


Regards,
Martin