> > > > David, time for another scan over the time gathering code I think...
> > > 
> > > Are you running ntp?
> > Yes.
> 
> NTP can fiddle with the system time, anythime that is actually set
> will destroy the cpu time of teh active process.
> 
> Really the 'time since boot' and ' time of boot' need to be kept separate
> so that the former increases monatonicaly (but not, necessarly, strictly so).
> Changing the system time would affect the 'time of boot' part ofthesum.
> 

I don't think that's the problem.  I've been logging ntp with 
allstatus+all, and all I see are ntp status messages.


R.