>Number:         153620
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Xen guest system clock drifts in AWS EC2 (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT 
>i386 T1-micro)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 02 10:40:13 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg Holmberg
>Release:        9.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD domU-12-31-39-13-00-E9 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #88: Wed Dec 29 
09:55:39 UTC 2010     
[email protected]:/usr/obj/i386.i386/usr/src/sys/XEN  i386
>Description:
9.0-CURRENT system running as AMI in Amazon EC2 cloud keeps poor time.

System was under heavy load, repeatedly compiling packages to exercise memory 
allocation code.

Clock in guest should be updated faithfully by the host. Clock in this AMI 
drifted 2200 seconds over 11 hours.

>How-To-Repeat:
>From Amazon AWS Console, start a FreeBSD instance. I used ami-a0fc0dc9, the 
>most recent 9.0-CURRENT available on Dec 30, 2010.

Wait a few hours. (Maybe use it heavily?)

Compare the correct time from a good NTP source with the AMI system clock.


>Fix:
No known fix. (Didn't rtfs yet)

Workaround: perhaps run ntpdate out of cron every twenty minutes?


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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