With the options "noapic" and "notsc" plus ntp-server the clock remains sync but with high cpu usage... look this: JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON) 361 pnc Bet7_pon pnc R 1:08:07 4 teoria,teoria[1-3] 360 testes teste1MA rodrigo R 1:59:50 2 teoria[5,8] teoria9: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria1: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria2: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria5: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria3: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria7: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 teoria4: Qui Jan 24 21:36:54 BRT 2008 -> teoria8: Qui Jan 24 20:26:36 BRT 2008 <- teoria10: Qui Jan 24 21:36:55 BRT 2008 teoria6: Qui Jan 24 21:36:55 BRT 2008 After 2:00 hs the teoria8's clock delayed 1:10 hs! rodrigo@teoria8:~$ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 4020 864 ? Ss 10:00 0:00 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [migration/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [events/0] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [events/1] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [khelper] root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kblockd/1] root 49 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kacpid] root 50 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kacpi_notify] root 184 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kseriod] root 233 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 10:00 0:00 [pdflush] root 234 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 10:00 0:00 [pdflush] root 235 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kswapd0] root 279 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [aio/0] root 280 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [aio/1] root 1491 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 1494 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [khubd] root 1512 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ata/0] root 1515 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ata/1] root 1518 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [ata_aux] root 1587 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 1863 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 1864 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 2324 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 2325 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_3] root 2347 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_4] root 2348 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_5] root 2404 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_6] root 2405 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [scsi_eh_7] root 2544 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [knodemgrd_0] root 2722 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 10:00 0:00 [kjournald] root 2876 0.0 0.0 19168 960 ? S