On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Russell Coker wrote: > > But I prefer to just start it [ntpd] and let it do it's thing. If the > > difference is less than 20 minutes then it can manage it by itself. > > Is your ntpd server inside a virtual machine?
No. Just a plain old P3 desktop system that's been running for years as a router. > In "virtualland" time is a problem. In short, there is only one timer in > hardware, and the virtual machine may lose ticks if machines are busy with > something else. > > If "ntp time" and "system time" differ too much, ntpd stops synchronizing, > and the gap widens. That's about 20 minutes from memory, you need some severe problems to get to that stage. For my virtual servers I generally find that it's a few seconds of inaccuracy per day and I run ntpdate from a daily cron job to fix it. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
