NTP problem - Clock too fast for NTP to keep up?

[Peter Kiem]

Hi Matthew,

> I haven't been following this thread closely, but the ref to VMware 
> caught my eye.  In VMware WS, there is an option in VMware Tools to 
> synch the VM system clock to the host system clock.  (I've only run 
> Windows guests, so I'm not sure where to look for a Linux guest.)  I'd 
> be surprised if GSX doesn't have a similar option.  Do you have it set?

That was one of the things VMware support and I tried some time ago.  It 
is on for the FC2 virtual servers and they were exhibiting the same 
symptoms as my FC3 virtual server which doesn't have it on.

Actually funny thing is I recently upgraded the kernel on my FC2 virtual 
servers and they went from this

Feb  6 06:01:36 dalamar ntpdate[32374]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -25.022456 sec
Feb  6 06:03:40 dalamar ntpdate[32408]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -19.970674 sec
Feb  6 06:05:59 dalamar ntpdate[32427]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -1.573804 sec
Feb  6 06:07:36 dalamar ntpdate[32454]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -25.294960 sec
Feb  6 06:09:52 dalamar ntpdate[32487]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -8.502715 sec

to this

Feb 11 06:01:33 dalamar ntpdate[28825]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 93.232937 sec
Feb 11 06:06:27 dalamar ntpdate[28903]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 146.939114 sec
Feb 11 06:09:34 dalamar ntpdate[28964]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 93.697350 sec
Feb 11 06:14:23 dalamar ntpdate[29033]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 142.479991 sec
Feb 11 06:17:33 dalamar ntpdate[29082]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 92.823847 sec
Feb 11 06:22:22 dalamar ntpdate[29164]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 142.303346 sec
Feb 11 06:25:38 dalamar ntpdate[29220]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset 97.709041 sec

>>> This doesn't look like a tickadj correctable error to be truthfull 
>>> unless you take tickadj down in the 6000 - 7500 range.  This one 

I'm beginning to think there is nothing I can do about this until VMware 
decide to officially support Fedora as a guest OS :(

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Regards,
Peter Kiem

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