[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

[Drag0n]

It was a quick effective hack to get it working, on line in the crontab 
entry vs playing with the config file and making sure your not being 
abusive with the updates, and an addition service to worry about running.


Drag0n



Brian Pitts wrote:
> Drag0n wrote:
>> This has been a long going issue with the Server product line.
>>
>> http://communities.vmware.com/message/712851#712851
>>
>> It seems to be worse under heavy loads. I have yet to see the issue on 
>> ESXi guests thought.
>>
>> If you have that option, it may be advisable to move to that platform. 
>> the only way i found around that was an hourly or more frequent time 
>> update with ntpdate in the crontab.
>>
> 
> I'm curious: why not run the ntp daemon instead to get more frequent
> clock updates?
> 
> http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ALGO-CLK-UPD
> 
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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