On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:53 +0200, Anders wrote: > Dovecot (v1.1.rc8) died tonight, with an error about time moving > backwards by 4398 seconds. I can see from logs that this has happend a > few times before with the imap processes, without me noticing. I sure > noticed the master process missing, though :-). > > I was puzzled that it was always 4398 seconds, in particular because > this server runs an NTP daemon. A little searching for this problem > shows that it is an issue with the Linux kernel gettimeofday(), see > e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/23/96 > > Below is a patch (untested) to work around this issue. Do you see > something wrong with this approach, apart from the uglyness?
Only problem I can see is that if there's a legitimate jump of 4395 seconds it'll busy-loop for 5 seconds before continuing. Probably not very likely to happen.
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