"Gary Heston" <gheston@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
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In article <2que07F14aronU1@uni-berlin.de>, BrianW <brian@nospam.net>

wrote:

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.

This sounds like either a hardware problem or a bug in Mandrake 9.0 (which I
doubt or other Linux versions would exhibit the same problem).  The system
clock should be an OS level interrupt.  Windows 95, 98, and ME all exhibit
this particular bug when running SETI Classic.  Windows NT, 2000, XP, and
2003 don't.  Application programs should never be able to turn off hardware
interrupts.

Mike Ober.