[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[Andre Dill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
> Sent: 09 February 2009 18:00 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk
> 
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Andre Dill wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > In my experience on a fully loaded Vmware server ntpd is not good
> > enough.
> > I have had skew of 30s + in a minute - ntpd just cannot handle such
> skew
> > and freaks out.
> > Eventually my solution for the development VMware server was to run
a
> > manual ntpdate via cron every minute -- horrible kludge I know - but
> > this is a dev server, the production servers are not so heavily
> loaded.
> 
> Is that even with the recommended kernel arguments?

Unfortunately yes. Granted it is not all the time.
90% of the time the skew is +-1second per minute but even that is too
much for ntpd to handle.
But when a big development test is run the skew can get very bad.

Andre

> If so, then ye gads!
> 
> jh
> 
> --
> "Long Island represents the American's idea of what God would have
done
> with
>   Nature if he'd had the money."                      -- Peter Fleming
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Spacewalk-list mailing list
> Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to DataCash Group plc and its group companies. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please forward it to info at datacash.com with the subject line "Received in Error". If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy, print, distribute or rely on this email or any transmitted files. DataCash Ltd is registered in England and Wales no. 3430157. DataCash Ltd is part of the DataCash Group plc. DataCash Group plc is registered in England and Wales no. 3168091. DataCash Ltd and DataCash Group plc registered address is Descartes House, 8 Gate Street, London, WC2A 3HP, United Kingdom. 

Save a tree...Please only print this page if essential