to check if ntp is working u need to run ntpq

check out
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1032.html

its my old blog(for netware), but mostly relevant for unix flavors too..
since at that time i had ported the ntp unix code to netware..

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Anton Stöckl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12 Okt., 18:52, dormando <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The Dev server has this issue:
> > > - items that are not yet expired (I had a sample with 35 minutes
> > > lifetime left) get removed from the cache
> > > - the memcache has plenty of free memory from the default 64MB
> > > - the server has 12GB of free memory
> >
> > > Any good reason why a valid item is removed with plenty of free space?
> >
> > Your clock is probably drifting. Try 1.4.7 or newer?
>
> The general problem with "trying a newer version" is that we'd prefer
> to use the
> OS's packaging mechanisms. So those are the latest versions available.
> Also
> there might be many dependency problems and such.
>
> For sure, we want properly working Memcaches in the first place. ;-)
>
> Is there any way to find out if our clock is really drifting? I could
> not see any
> timestamp that looked wrong anywhere. Also we're not talking about 3
> seconds
> but up to minutes to ealy expiry!
>
> > > The Live server has a more severe issue:
> > > - items that ARE expired are returned
> > > - if I log into memcached via telnet and issue a flush_all command the
> > > items are gone; this makes no sense to me as flush_all does only
> > > expire
> > > items, lazy remove is purging them
> >
> > The 1.4.2 ubuntu guy has bugs with multigets (and probably something
> > else...). Not sure I understand what you mean by "all the items are gone"
> > - that's sort of what flush_all does, albeit lazily. What exactly are you
> > looking at when you say this?
>
> Sure, flush_all should do that. But also expired items should be
> removed.
> So I was wondering why items that I see as expired don't get nuked,
> but
> then still the "flush_all" can do the job right!
>
> Clock drifting: We're talking about many hours here. Expired items
> just never
> get nuked by expiry!
>
> Is there any trustworthy source of .deb packages for Memcached where
> we
> could pull a current version?
>
> Best regards, Anton
>

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