[arch-general] 11 minutes mode

[Jorge Almeida]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anybody knows how to make sure that the kernel will not mess with the hardware
>> clock every 11 minutes? The proper way would be to use a kernel that doesn't
>> try to do it, but I want to use Arch's standard kernel, which has
>> CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y.
>> Maybe something in /proc?
>
> As far as I know the only thing that will trigger 11-minute-mode is
> that an ntp client tells the kernel that it is running.
>
I found in http://www.mail-archive.com/questions@lists.ntp.org/msg02172.html
that "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/time/rtc_update" would do it, but we don't
have /proc/sys/kernel/time/. Maybe this info is outdated, or it requires the
PPSkit patch...

Thanks

J.A.