Justin, I found the reference to my old PhD student, if you are interested
http://www.iu.hio.no/~kyrre/phd_thesis_kyrre_begnum.pdf see p141 Justin Lloyd wrote: > I’m trying to understand this message because I’ve got users asking > about it, thinking it may be causally related to some unexpected > in-house application restarts. I found Mark’s response to an earlier > question about this: > > > > https://cfengine.org/pipermail/help-cfengine/2007-July/001905.html > > > > However, that goes back to Cfengine 2 and the message still exists in > Cfengine 3. The source code (env_monitor.c) only indicates this is > something about “leap detection”, and from the code it would seem that > leap detection has something to do with detecting unusually large > changes in system observables. It does tend to show up right after > Cfengine restarts, which makes me think that it could be seeing large > changes since lots of observables would go from zero to whatever right > away as soon as cf-monitord starts gathering data. > > > > Can anyone who understands this better provide a short explanation of > this message? I see it on a lot of systems that don’t have problems, > which is the other main reason I don’t think it’s related to the > application restarts, but I’d like to be able to explain what it is to > our users that are concerned about it. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > > > *Justin C. Lloyd* > > Senior Unix Infrastructure Engineer > > *Office*: 303.684.4166 > > > Description: Description: cid:image001.gif@01CB11F3.8C8CBD70 > www.digitalglobe.com <http://www.digitalglobe.com/> > > > > This electronic communication and any attachments may contain confidential > and proprietary > information of DigitalGlobe, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient, or > an agent or employee > responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, or > if you have received > this communication in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, > disseminate or > otherwise use the information. Please indicate to the sender that you have > received this > communication in error, and delete the copy you received. DigitalGlobe > reserves the > right to monitor any electronic communication sent or received by its > employees, agents > or representatives. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
