System clock runs too fast on HP ProLiant hardware with RHEL 5
Issue
- On certain HP ProLiant hardware under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64/EM64T, the system clock is too fast (approximately two to four times as fast as it should be). The time drift is too big to be corrected by NTP.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 prior to 5.4
- HP ProLiant hardware
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